2 papers
cs.CL2026
Self-supervised Speech Comparison for L2 Phone, Rhythm, and Intonation Scoring
Stephen McIntosh, Reuben Smit, Daisuke Saito +2
L2 speech assessment has traditionally focused on phonetic assessment, leaving the scoring of suprasegmental features such as rhythm and intonation underexplored. Moreover, assessm…
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…