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cs.CL2026
Self-supervised Speech Comparison for L2 Phone, Rhythm, and Intonation Scoring
Stephen McIntosh, Reuben Smit, Daisuke Saito +2
The paper explores using dynamic time warping on self‑supervised WavLM speech representations to automatically score phonetic accuracy, rhythm, and intonation of L2 English and Jap…
cs.CL2025
Towards few-shot isolated word reading assessment
Reuben Smit, Retief Louw, Herman Kamper
We explore an ASR-free method for isolated word reading assessment in low-resource settings. Our few-shot approach compares input child speech to a small set of adult-provided refe…