Peter Smit

Reading validation for pronunciation evaluation in the Digitala project

2017 · Aaltodoc (Aalto University)

We describe a recognition, validation and segmentation system as an intelligent preprocessor for automatic pronunciation evaluation. The system is developed for large-scale high stake foreign language tests, where it is necessary to reduce human workload …

Advances in subword-based HMM-DNN speech recognition across languages

2020 · Computer Speech & Language

We describe a novel way to implement subword language models in speech recognition systems based on weighted finite state transducers, hidden Markov models, and deep neural networks. The acoustic models are built on graphemes in …