Automated detection of pronunciation errors in non-native English speech employing deep learning

09/13/2022
by   Daniel Korzekwa, et al.
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Despite significant advances in recent years, the existing Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) methods detect pronunciation errors with a relatively low accuracy (precision of 60 proposes novel deep learning methods for detecting pronunciation errors in non-native (L2) English speech, outperforming the state-of-the-art method in AUC metric (Area under the Curve) by 41 problems with existing CAPT methods is the low availability of annotated mispronounced speech needed for reliable training of pronunciation error detection models. Therefore, the detection of pronunciation errors is reformulated to the task of generating synthetic mispronounced speech. Intuitively, if we could mimic mispronounced speech and produce any amount of training data, detecting pronunciation errors would be more effective. Furthermore, to eliminate the need to align canonical and recognized phonemes, a novel end-to-end multi-task technique to directly detect pronunciation errors was proposed. The pronunciation error detection models have been used at Amazon to automatically detect pronunciation errors in synthetic speech to accelerate the research into new speech synthesis methods. It was demonstrated that the proposed deep learning methods are applicable in the tasks of detecting and reconstructing dysarthric speech.

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