Anand, PA and Yarra, Chiranjeevi and Kausthubha, NK and Ghosh, Prasanta Kumar (2018) Intonation tutor by SPIRE (In-SPIRE): An online tool for an automatic feedback to the second language learners in learning intonation. In: 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication, INTERSPEECH 2018, 2-6 September, 2018, Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC)Hyderabad, pp. 546-547. (In Press)
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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.
| Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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| Series.: | Interspeech |
| Publisher: | ISCA-INT SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOC |
| Additional Information: | 19th Annual Conference of the International-Speech-Communication-Association (INTERSPEECH 2018), Hyderabad, INDIA, AUG 02-SEP 06, 2018 |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2019 06:28 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2019 06:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/62914 |
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