Statistical Pronunciation Modeling for Non-Native Speech Processing

• Main Authors: Gruhn, Rainer E. (Author), Minker, Wolfgang (Author), Nakamura, Satoshi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Signals and Communication Technology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computational linguistics.; Phonology.; Statistics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Language Translation and Linguistics.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

In this work, the authors present a fully statistical approach to model non--native speakers' pronunciation. Second-language speakers pronounce words in multiple different ways compared to the native speakers. Those deviations, may it be phoneme substitutions, deletions or insertions, can be mo...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Properties of Non-native Speech
• Pronunciation Variation Modeling in the Literature
• Non-native Speech Database
• Handling Non-native Speech
• Pronunciation HMMs.