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基于CTC-ATT的英语发音错误检测系统

Improved Mispronunciation detection system using a hybrid CTC-ATT based approach for L2 English speakers

UpGrad(UpGrad 教育科技公司)

Neha Baranwal, Sharatkumar Chilaka

摘要:

这份报告提出了计算机辅助语言学习(CALL)领域的最新研究。发音错误检测是计算机辅助语音训练系统(CAPT)的核心部分之一,CAPT是CALL的一个子集。关于自动发音错误检测的研究始于20世纪90年代,但由于计算能力的提高和用于记录发音分析所需语音的移动设备的可用性,在过去十年中,全面的CAPT的发展才加速。发音错误的检测是一个很难解决的问题,因为没有正式的定义正确和不正确的发音。结果,通常检测到诸如音素替换、插入和删除的韵律和音素错误。此外,人们已经同意,学习发音应侧重于说话者的可理解性,而不是听起来像一个L1英语发言者。最初,使用高斯混合模型-隐马尔可夫模型和深度神经网络-隐马尔可夫模型方法开发了称为良好发音的后验似然方法。与最近提出的基于ASR的端到端错误发音检测系统相比,这些是复杂的系统。本研究的目的是建立端到端(E2 E)模型使用连接主义时间分类(CTC)和基于注意的序列解码器。最近,E2 E模型在错误发音检测准确性方面已经显示出相当大的改进。本研究将比较基线模型CNN-RNN-CTC、基于字符序列的注意力解码器的CNN-RNN-CTC和基于音素的解码器系统的CNN-RNN-CTC。这项研究将有助于我们在决定一个更好的方法来开发一个有效的发音错误检测系统。

英文摘要:

This report proposes state-of-the-art research in the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Mispronunciation detection is one of the core components of Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) systems which is a subset of CALL. Studies on automated pronunciation error detection began in the 1990s, but the development of fullfledged CAPTs has only accelerated in the last decade due to an increase in computing power and availability of mobile devices for recording speech required for pronunciation analysis. Detecting Pronunciation errors is a hard problem to solve as there is no formal definition of correct and incorrect pronunciation. As a result, typically prosodic and phoneme errors such as phoneme substitution, insertion, and deletion are detected. Also, it has been agreed upon that learning pronunciation should focus on speaker intelligibility rather than sounding like an L1 English speaker. Initially, methods were developed on posterior likelihood called Good of Pronunciation using Gaussian Mixture Model-Hidden Markov Model and Deep Neural Network-Hidden Markov Model approaches. These are complex systems to implement when compared with the recently proposed ASR based End-to-End mispronunciations detection systems. The purpose of this research is to create End-to-End (E2E) models using Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and Attention-based sequence decoder. Recently, E2E models have shown considerable improvement in mispronunciation detection accuracy. This research will draw comparison amongst baseline models CNN-RNN-CTC, CNN-RNN-CTC with character sequence-based attention decoder, and CNN-RNN-CTC with phoneme-based decoder systems. This study will help us in deciding a better approach towards developing an efficient mispronunciation detection system.

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