[th] Pronunciation Errors for Chinese Learners of English
[th] Pronunciation Errors for Chinese Learners of English
[th] Pronunciation Errors for Chinese Learners of English
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Discussion<br />
• Machine per<strong>for</strong>mance close to human<br />
agreement despite simplistic me<strong>th</strong>odology<br />
and suboptimal audio quality<br />
• Addition <strong>of</strong> more pronunciation errors<br />
(besides [s]) to dictionary led to a higher<br />
False Positive rate and decreased<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />
• The same me<strong>th</strong>odology on a control set <strong>of</strong> 22<br />
native speakers (N=352) results in a False<br />
Positive rate <strong>of</strong> 4.5%<br />
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