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Spoken English Intelligibility Remediation with PocketSphinx Alignment and Feature Extraction Improves Substantially over the State of the Art
Yuan Gao, Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava, James Salsman
We use automatic speech recognition to assess spoken English learner pronunciation based on the authentic intelligibility of the learners' spoken responses determined from support vector machine (SVM) classifier or deep learning neural network model predictions of transcription correctness. Using numeric features produced by PocketSphinx alignment mode and many recognition passes searching for the substitution and deletion of each expected phoneme and insertion of unexpected phonemes in sequence, the SVM models achieve 82 percent agreement with the accuracy of Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdworker transcriptions, up from 75 percent reported by multiple independent researchers. Using such features with SVM classifier probability prediction models can help computer-aided pronunciation teaching (CAPT) systems provide intelligibility remediation.
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