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[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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