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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
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.
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(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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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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Language English (Japanese title is available) 
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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 
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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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