Digitala: An augmented test and review process prototype for high-stakes spoken foreign language examination

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2016
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en
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2
784-785
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Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Volume 08-12-September-2016
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This paper introduces the first prototype for a computerised examination procedure of spoken foreign languages in Finland, intended for national scale upper secondary school final examinations. Speech technology and profiling of reviewers are used to minimise the otherwise massive reviewing effort.
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Phonetics, Speech analysis, Speech recognition, Spoken language skill assessment
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Karhila , R , Rouhe , A , Smit , P , Mansikkaniemi , A , Kallio , H , Lindroos , E , Hildén , R , Vainio , M & Kurimo , M 2016 , Digitala: An augmented test and review process prototype for high-stakes spoken foreign language examination . in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association : Interspeech'16, San Francisco, USA, Sept. 8-12, 2016 . vol. 08-12-September-2016 , Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association , International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) , pp. 784-785 , Interspeech , San Francisco , California , United States , 08/09/2016 . < http://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2016/pdfs/2008.PDF >