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Title: Intonation tutor by SPIRE (In-SPIRE): An online tool for an automatic feedback to the second language learners in learning intonation
Authors: Anand, P.A.
Yarra, C.
Kausthubha, N.K.
Ghosh, P.K.
Issue Date: 2018
Citation: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, 2018, Vol.2018-September, , pp.546-547
Abstract: In spoken communication, intonation often conveys meaning of an utterance. Thus, incorrect intonation, typically made by second language (L2) learners, could result in miscommunication. We demonstrate In-SPIRE tool that helps the L2 learners to learn intonation in a self-learning manner. For this, we design an interactive self-explanatory front end, which is also used to send learner's audio and hand-shake signals to the back-end. At the back-end, we implement a system that takes the learner's audio against a specific stimuli and computes pitch patterns representing the intonation. For this, we apply pitch stylization on each syllable segment in the audio. Further, we compute a quality score using the learner's patterns and the respective ground-truth patterns. Finally, the score, the patterns of the learners and the ground-truth are sent to the front-end for display as a feedback to the learners. Thus, the learner could correct any mismatch in his/her intonation with respect to the ground-truth. The proposed tool benefits the learners who do not have access to effective spoken language training. � 2018 International Speech Communication Association. All rights reserved.
URI: http://idr.nitk.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/8337
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