Assessing the Prosody of Non-Native Speakers of English: Measures and Feature Sets

no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Eduardo Coutinho, Florian H{\"o}nig, Yue Zhang, Simone Hantke, Anton Batliner, Elmar N{\"o}th, Bj{\"o}rn Schuller

We also discuss the impact of various fusion strategies on performance. Overall, our results demonstrate that the prosody of non-native speakers of English as L2 can be reliably assessed using supra-segmental audio features; prosodic features seem to be the most important ones.

regression