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Utterance-Level Methods for Identifying Reliable ASR-Output for Child Speech
Gus Lathouwers, Lingyun Gao, Catia Cucchiarini +1
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is increasingly used in applications involving child speech, such as language learning and literacy acquisition. However, the effectiveness of su…
Zero-Shot Speech LLMs for Multi-Aspect Evaluation of L2 Speech: Challenges and Opportunities
Aditya Kamlesh Parikh, Cristian Tejedor-Garcia, Catia Cucchiarini +1
An accurate assessment of L2 English pronunciation is crucial for language learning, as it provides personalized feedback and ensures a fair evaluation of individual progress. Howe…
Evaluating Logit-Based GOP Scores for Mispronunciation Detection
Aditya Kamlesh Parikh, Cristian Tejedor-Garcia, Catia Cucchiarini +1
Pronunciation assessment relies on goodness of pronunciation (GOP) scores, traditionally derived from softmax-based posterior probabilities. However, posterior probabilities may su…
Enhancing GOP in CTC-Based Mispronunciation Detection with Phonological Knowledge
Aditya Kamlesh Parikh, Cristian Tejedor-Garcia, Catia Cucchiarini +1
Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) systems employ automatic measures of pronunciation quality, such as the goodness of pronunciation (GOP) metric. GOP relies on forced…
Improving Child Speech Recognition and Reading Mistake Detection by Using Prompts
Lingyun Gao, Cristian Tejedor-Garcia, Catia Cucchiarini +1
Automatic reading aloud evaluation can provide valuable support to teachers by enabling more efficient scoring of reading exercises. However, research on reading evaluation systems…