A Preliminary Speech Learning Tool for Improvement of African English Accents

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dc.contributor.authorOyo, Benedict
dc.contributor.authorKalema, Billy Mathias
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-08T12:58:56Z
dc.date.available2022-03-08T12:58:56Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractSpeech recognition systems emphasise: accent recognition, recognition system performance through calculation of word error rate (WER), pronunciation modelling, speech-based interactions (tone, pitch, volume, background noise, speaker’s gender and age, speaking speed and quality of recording equipment) and speech database solutions. However, research into the use of speech recognition systems for improvement accents is scarcely available. In this paper, we focus on development of an speech recognition system for recognizing African English accents and enabling the speakers improve their English accents. This is achieved by using a dual speech recognition engine: the first, a multiple accent recogniser receives African English speech input, classifies it and sends to the second recogniser that evaluates the speech against standard English pronunciations. Speech deviations from standard English pronunciations are captured and read by the system as a way of supporting the learner to improve his/her reading proficiency. Preliminary tests indicate that terminologies that are rarely used in ordinary conversations (e.g. enthusiasm, exuberant, vague, etc) are most poorly pronounced irrespective of the educational level of the reader.en_US
dc.identifier.citationOyo, B., & Kalema, B. M. (2014, September). A preliminary speech learning tool for improvement of African English accents. In 2014 International Conference on Education Technologies and Computers (ICETC) (pp. 44-48). IEEE.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-4799-6248-8/14/$31.00
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/2565
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIEEEen_US
dc.subjectSpeech recognitionen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Englishen_US
dc.subjectSpeaker clusteringen_US
dc.subjectAcoustic modelen_US
dc.titleA Preliminary Speech Learning Tool for Improvement of African English Accentsen_US
dc.typeBook Chapteren_US
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