English call system with functions of speech segmentation and pronunciation evaluation using speech recognition technology
Yasuo Ariki, Jun Ogata · 2002
In communication learning by second language, three abil-ities have to be improved; listening, speaking and writing abilities. In this sense, it is important to evaluate user’s pro-nunciation ability and to detect mispronunciations in En-glish CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) sys-tems. In this paper, we propose three functions (segmenta-tion, phrasing and pronunciation evaluation) in the CALL system using speech recognition technologies. The system was evaluated by the answer to questionnaires for ten learn-ers. 1.