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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School

Speech recognition of foreign accent

Abstract

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This thesis investigates the application of AutoRegressive (AR) modeling techniques on single syllable words to detect foreign accents in spoken American English. The study involves thirty-one native American English speakers, and six native Brazilian speakers. Five different distance measures are used for classification. Results show that correct classification is obtained for 88 % of the native English speakers and 80.5 % of the non-native (foreign) English speakers.

Degree

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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Year dc:date.issued
1994

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Dewey, John K.
Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
  • Fargues, Monique P.
  • Hippenstiel, Ralph

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
Language dc:language.iso
en_US

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https://hdl.handle.net/10945/42892
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oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/42892

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Dewey, John K.. Speech recognition of foreign accent. Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1994. https://hdl.handle.net/10945/42892