| Presentation | 2001/12/13 Modeling of Stressed Syllables for their Detection in English Sentences to Develop an English Rhythm Learning System Satoshi KOBASHIKAWA, Nobuaki MINEMATSU, Keikichi HIROSE, Donna ERICKSON, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Current globalization requires Japanese people to speak English with correct pronunciation. To acquire this ability efficiently, they need to master generating English rhythm with positioning appropriate stressed syllables. With the aim of developing an English rhythm learning system for Japanese learners, in this paper we proposed methods to model stressed/unstressed syllables in English sentences, where relative differences in prosodic features between two adjacent syllables and vowel-based modeling in addition to a syllable-badsed one were investigated.In experiments, with the previously proposed modeling method, about 91% accuracy was obtained as baseline in the speaker-closed/text-open condition. When using other speakers, approximately 80% and 70% accuracy was obtained respectively with native speakers and Japanese ones. The proposed methods showed that, in the speaker-open/text-open condition, 5% relative improvement was obtained by using the relative differences between two consecutive syllables and 8% improvement was observed for Japanese speakers by using the vowel-based modeling. |
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| Keyword(in English) | English rhythm / stressed syllable / HMM / English CAI |
| Paper # | NLC2001-65,SP2001-100 |
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| Committee | NLC |
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| Conference Date | 2001/12/13(1days) |
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| Registration To | Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication (NLC) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Modeling of Stressed Syllables for their Detection in English Sentences to Develop an English Rhythm Learning System |
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| Keyword(1) | English rhythm |
| Keyword(2) | stressed syllable |
| Keyword(3) | HMM |
| Keyword(4) | English CAI |
| 1st Author's Name | Satoshi KOBASHIKAWA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Nobuaki MINEMATSU |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, University of Tokyo |
| 3rd Author's Name | Keikichi HIROSE |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo |
| 4th Author's Name | Donna ERICKSON |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Gifu City Women's College |
| Date | 2001/12/13 |
| Paper # | NLC2001-65,SP2001-100 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.101 |
| Number (no) | 520 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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