no code implementations • 2 Jul 2022 • Daniel Korzekwa, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Thomas Drugman, Bozena Kostek
We show that these techniques not only improve the accuracy of three machine learning models for detecting pronunciation errors but also help establish a new state-of-the-art in the field.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2021 • Daniel Korzekwa, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Thomas Drugman, Shira Calamaro, Bozena Kostek
To train this model, phonetically transcribed L2 speech is not required and we only need to mark mispronounced words.
no code implementations • 16 Jan 2021 • Daniel Korzekwa, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Szymon Zaporowski, Shira Calamaro, Thomas Drugman, Bozena Kostek
A common approach to the automatic detection of mispronunciation in language learning is to recognize the phonemes produced by a student and compare it to the expected pronunciation of a native speaker.
no code implementations • 29 Dec 2020 • Daniel Korzekwa, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Szymon Zaporowski, Grzegorz Beringer, Jaime Lorenzo-Trueba, Alicja Serafinowicz, Jasha Droppo, Thomas Drugman, Bozena Kostek
This paper describes two novel complementary techniques that improve the detection of lexical stress errors in non-native (L2) English speech: attention-based feature extraction and data augmentation based on Neural Text-To-Speech (TTS).
no code implementations • 10 Jul 2019 • Daniel Korzekwa, Roberto Barra-Chicote, Bozena Kostek, Thomas Drugman, Mateusz Lajszczak
This paper proposed a novel approach for the detection and reconstruction of dysarthric speech.