SIAK — A Game for Foreign Language Pronunciation Learning

Karhila, Reima; Ylinen, Sari; Enarvi, Seppo; Palomäki, Kalle; Nikulin, Aleksander; Rantula, Olli; Viitanen, Vertti; Dhinakaran, Krupakar; Smolander, Anna-Riikka; Kallio, Heini; Junttila, Katja; Uther, Maria; Hämäläinen, Perttu; Kurimo, Mikko

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SIAK — A Game for Foreign Language Pronunciation Learning



Title:	SIAK — A Game for Foreign Language Pronunciation Learning
Author(s):	Karhila, Reima ; Ylinen, Sari ; Enarvi, Seppo ; Palomäki, Kalle ; Nikulin, Aleksander ; Rantula, Olli ; Viitanen, Vertti ; Dhinakaran, Krupakar ; Smolander, Anna-Riikka ; Kallio, Heini ; Junttila, Katja ; Uther, Maria ; Hämäläinen, Perttu ; Kurimo, Mikko
Date:	2017-08
Language:	en
Pages:	3429-3430
Department:	Dept Signal Process and Acoust University of Helsinki Department of Computer Science University of Winchester Department of Media
Series:	Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, Interspeech: Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
ISSN:	1990-9772
Keywords:	pronunciation grading, language learning, phonetics, speech analysis
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Citation: Karhila , R , Ylinen , S , Enarvi , S , Palomäki , K , Nikulin , A , Rantula , O , Viitanen , V , Dhinakaran , K , Smolander , A-R , Kallio , H , Junttila , K , Uther , M , Hämäläinen , P & Kurimo , M 2017 , SIAK — A Game for Foreign Language Pronunciation Learning . in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH . vol. 2017-August , Interspeech: Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association , International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) , pp. 3429-3430 , Interspeech , Stockholm , Sweden , 20/08/2017 . < http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2017/pdfs/2046.PDF >
Abstract: We introduce a digital game for children’s foreign-language learning that uses automatic speech recognition (ASR) for evaluating children’s utterances. Our first prototype focuses on the learning of English words and their pronunciation. The game connects to a network server, which handles the recognition and pronunciation grading of children’s foreign-language speech. The server is reusable for different applications. Given suitable acoustic models, it can be used for grading pronunciations in any language.

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