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UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Learning tone distinction for Mandarin Chinese
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Weenink, David Chen, Guangqin Chen, Zong-Yan Konink, Stefan De Vierkant, Dennis Hagen, Eveline Van Son, Rob Van |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | We describe the SpeakGoodChinese system that supports beginning students of Mandarin Chinese to produce tones correctly (http://speakgoodchinese.org/). Students pronounce a word spelled in pinyin notation and receive feedback from our system on their production of the tones. The novelty in our approach lies in the use of synthetic reference tone(s) produced from the pinyin notation. Preliminary results indicate a 6% rejection rate for six words, read multiple times, by three reference speakers and less than 15% acceptance rate on incorrectly produced tones on shadowed versions of these words by 8 speakers. With speech from 4 reference speakers collected with a fully functional test application, a rejection rate of less than 15% was achieved. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/734031/53217_p950I07_WeeninkEtAl2007.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
