Towards a computer-aided pronunciation training system for German learners of Mandarin
Hansjörg Mixdorff, Daniel Külls, Hussein Hussein, Shu Gong, Guoping Hu, Si Wei · 2009
The current paper discusses first investigations aimed to lay the groundwork for the development of computer-aided pronunciation training for teaching Mandarin to Germans.We conducted a contrastive analysis of the two languages leading to a set of tokens for a production and perception experiment involving German first-year students of Mandarin.Their data were perceptually evaluated by a teaching expert for Mandarin, native speakers of Mandarin as well as processed by a Mandarin automatic speech recognition system.