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| Presentation | 2013-02-28 13:40 Speaker-based pronunciation clustering of World Englishes based on pronunciation structure analysis Han-Ping Shen (National Cheng Kung Univ.), Nobuaki Minematsu (Univ. of Tokyo), Steven Weinberger (George Mason Univ.), Takehiko Makino (Chuo Univ.), Josef Novak, Teeraphon Pongkittiphan (Univ. of Tokyo), Chung-Hsien Wu (National Cheng Kung Univ.)  SP2012-116 |
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| Abstract | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | English is the only language available for global communication. Due to the influence of the students’ mother tongue, however, speakers from different regions inevitably have different accents in their pronunciation of English. The ultimate goal of our project is creating a global pronunciation map of World and individual Englishes, for speakers to use to locate similar English pronunciations. The speaker can then find the best English conversation partner. A learner can also know how his pronunciation geographically compares to other varieties. Creating a map mathematically requires a matrix of pronunciation distances among all the speakers considered. This paper investigates invariant pronunciation structure analysis and SVR to predict inter-speaker pronunciation distances for new speaker pairs. The speech accent archive, containing data from world-wide accented English speech, is used as training and testing samples. Experiments show very promising results. | |
| Keyword | (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| (in English) | World Englishes / Speaker-based Pronunciation Clustering / Pronunciation Structure / Support Vector Regression / / / / | |
| Reference Info. | IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 112, no. 450, SP2012-116, pp. 7-12, Feb. 2013. | |
| Paper # | SP2012-116 | |
| Date of Issue | 2013-02-21 (SP) | |
| ISSN | Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685 Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380 | |
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| Conference Information | |
| Committee | SP |
| Conference Date | 2013-02-28 - 2013-03-01 |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Daido University |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | speech application systems, etc. |
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| Registration To | SP |
| Conference Code | 2013-02-SP |
| Language | English (Japanese title is available) |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | Speaker-based pronunciation clustering of World Englishes based on pronunciation structure analysis |
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| Keyword(1) | World Englishes |
| Keyword(2) | Speaker-based Pronunciation Clustering |
| Keyword(3) | Pronunciation Structure |
| Keyword(4) | Support Vector Regression |
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| 1st Author's Name | Han-Ping Shen |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (National Cheng Kung Univ.) |
| 2nd Author's Name | Nobuaki Minematsu |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 3rd Author's Name | Steven Weinberger |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | George Mason University (George Mason Univ.) |
| 4th Author's Name | Takehiko Makino |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Chuo University (Chuo Univ.) |
| 5th Author's Name | Josef Novak |
| 5th Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 6th Author's Name | Teeraphon Pongkittiphan |
| 6th Author's Affiliation | The University of Tokyo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
| 7th Author's Name | Chung-Hsien Wu |
| 7th Author's Affiliation | National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (National Cheng Kung Univ.) |
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| Date Time | 2013-02-28 13:40:00 |
| Presentation Time | 30 minutes |
| Registration for | SP |
| Paper # | SP2012-116 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.112 |
| Number (no) | no.450 |
| Page | pp.7-12 |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2013-02-21 (SP) |
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