Exploring Speech Representations for Proficiency Assessment in Language Learning
Elaf Islam,
Chanho Park,
Thomas Hain
Abstract:Automatic proficiency assessment can be a useful tool in language learning, for self-evaluation of language skills and to enable educators to tailor instruction effectively. Often assessment methods use categorisation approaches. In this paper an exemplar based approach is chosen, and comparisons between utterances are made using different speech encodings. Such an approach has the advantage to avoid formal categorisation of errors by experts. Aside from a standard spectral representation pretrained model embe… Show more
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