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A transfer learning approach to pronunciation scoring

Citation Author(s):
Marcelo Sancinetti, Cyntia Bonomi, Luciana Ferrer
Submitted by:
Jazmin Vidal
Last updated:
8 May 2022 - 12:49pm
Document Type:
Poster
Document Year:
2022
Event:
Presenters:
Jazmín Vidal
Paper Code:
3260
 

Phone-level pronunciation scoring is a challenging task, with performance far from that of human annotators. Standard systems generate a score for each phone in a phrase using models trained for automatic speech recognition (ASR) with native data only. Better performance has been shown when using systems that are trained specifically for the task using non-native data. Yet, such systems face the challenge that datasets labelled for this task are scarce and usually small. In this paper, we present a transfer learning-based approach that leverages a model trained for ASR, adapting it for the task of pronunciation scoring. We analyze the effect of several design choices and compare the performance with a state-of-the-art goodness of pronunciation (GOP) system. Our final system is 20% better than the GOP system on EpaDB, a database for pronunciation scoring research, for a cost function that prioritizes low rates of unnecessary corrections.

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