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PEDBench: Can Speech Models Detect Phonetic Errors?
Zhonghao Shi, Zackary Rackauckas, Jasmine Yip +9
Phonetic error detection (PED) aims to identify phoneme-level substitutions, deletions, and insertions and is essential for educational and clinical speech assessment and intervent…
A Survey of Automated Presentation Coaching: Systems, Methods, and Open Challenges
Wen Liang, Li Siyan, Zackary Rackauckas +1
Automated coaching for oral presentations sits at the intersection of computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT), prosody modeling, and speech synthesis, yet no prior work has…
Re:Member: Emotional Question Generation from Personal Memories
Zackary Rackauckas, Nobuaki Minematsu, Julia Hirschberg
We present Re:Member, a system that explores how emotionally expressive, memory-grounded interaction can support more engaging second language (L2) learning. By drawing on users' p…
Comparative Evaluation of Expressive Japanese Character Text-to-Speech with VITS and Style-BERT-VITS2
Zackary Rackauckas, Julia Hirschberg
Synthesizing expressive Japanese character speech poses unique challenges due to pitch-accent sensitivity and stylistic variability. This paper empirically evaluates two open-sourc…