- Review of Connected Speech
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...Speech
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Features of Protea's Connected Speech
Connected Speech is in many ways built on the theoretical foundation outlined above. The manual that
accompanies Connecte...
by Joy Egbert
in Volume 08 Number 1, January 2004
- Corrective feedback accuracy and pronunciation improvement: Feedback that is ‘good enough’
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...speech, even when L2
speech is intelligible to human listeners. In Derwing et al. (2000), L2 speech was recognized only 70% of
the time by a commercial version of Dragon Naturally Speaking, while in...
by Alif Silpachai, Reza Neiriz, MacKenzie Novotny, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna, John M. Levis, Evgeny Chukharev
in Volume 28 Number 1, 2024
- Review of Real English
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...speech segments, then to
repeat the speech sample, and finally, to record his/her own speech to compare with the
model speech. These exercises resemble the repetition exercises commonly used in
audiol...
by Tomoaki Tatsumi
in Volume 05 Number 1, January 2001
- Evaluating intelligent personal assistants for L2 listening and speaking development
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...speech recognition (ASR). While some criticize ASR systems due to their inability to accurately
understand L2 speech at the same rate as human listeners (Derwing, Munro, & Carbonaro, 2000), as
McCro...
by Gilbert Dizon
in Volume 24 Number 1, February 2020
- Google Translate as a tool for self-directed language learning
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...speech technologies such as text-to-speech
synthesizers (TTS) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) in L2 pedagogy.
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Walcir Cardoso is a Professor of Applied Linguisti...
by Catharina van Lieshout, Walcir Cardoso
in Volume 26 Number 1, 2022
- Computer-assisted pronunciation training for foreign language learning of grammatical features
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...speech-based AI systems,
has significantly transformed our lifestyles. These AI speech tools have the potential to revolutionize
language learning, conversation practice, and pronunciation. Large sp...
by Elsayed Issa, Gus Hahn-Powell
in Volume 29 Number 1, 2025
- Applications of Text Analysis Tools for Spoken Response Grading
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...SpeechRater is its ability to automatically recognize and transcribe speech. As reported by Xi et al.
(2008), SpeechRater reports a word accuracy of only 53%, using speech recognition software develo...
by Scott Crossley, Danielle McNamara
in Volume 17 Number 2, June 2013
- E-Books and the Tablet PC
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...Speech recognition is also a feature of
Tablet PC's, with built-in support for English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. Speech can be combined
with pen input and is enabled through a new utility call...
by Robert Godwin-Jones
in Volume 07 Number 1, January 2003
- Call for papers
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...speech recognition systems, web-based tools, or other
software options
• contribution of voice chat to improvement in pronunciation
• relationship between speech production and perception
• pronun...
in Volume 11 Number 3, October 2007 Special Issue on Technology and Reading
- Teaching the pragmatics of Russian conversation using a corpus-referred website
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...speech acts in question.
Sykes and Cohen (2008) also developed a series of online modules on speech acts, but in Spanish and
using a strategy-based approach. The modules consist of videos of the spe...
by Edie A. Furniss
in Volume 20 Number 2, June 2016 Special Issue of Special Issues: 20 Years of Language Learning & Technology
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