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Investigating Speech Attribute Features for Anti-Phone based Pronunciation Verification Approach

by Ayat Hafzalla Ahmed, Hager Morsy, Sherif Mahdi Abdo
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 183 - Number 19
Year of Publication: 2021
Authors: Ayat Hafzalla Ahmed, Hager Morsy, Sherif Mahdi Abdo
10.5120/ijca2021921465

Ayat Hafzalla Ahmed, Hager Morsy, Sherif Mahdi Abdo . Investigating Speech Attribute Features for Anti-Phone based Pronunciation Verification Approach. International Journal of Computer Applications. 183, 19 ( Aug 2021), 1-10. DOI=10.5120/ijca2021921465

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author = { Ayat Hafzalla Ahmed, Hager Morsy, Sherif Mahdi Abdo },
title = { Investigating Speech Attribute Features for Anti-Phone based Pronunciation Verification Approach },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { Aug 2021 },
volume = { 183 },
number = { 19 },
month = { Aug },
year = { 2021 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 1-10 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume183/number19/32030-2021921465/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2021921465 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Hager Morsy
%A Sherif Mahdi Abdo
%T Investigating Speech Attribute Features for Anti-Phone based Pronunciation Verification Approach
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
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%V 183
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%P 1-10
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

With increased computing power, there has been a renewed interest in computer-assisted pronunciation learning (CAPL) applications in recent years; Automatic accurate pronunciation verification method plays an important role in automating the learning process and increasing its quality. Pronunciation errors can be divided into phonemic and prosodic error types. In this paper we propose a phoneme-level pronunciation verification method for Quranic Arabic based on anti-phone model. For each phoneme a binary support vector machine (SVM) classifier is trained to distinguish each phoneme from other phonemes. The (SVM) classifier is trained using speech attribute features derived from a bank of speech attribute detectors, namely manners and places of articulation. The feed forward deep neural network (DNN) architecture is utilized for the speech attribute detectors. The system is evaluated against speech corpora collected from fluent Quran reciters and achieved phoneme-level false-acceptance and false-rejection rates ranging from 2% to 25%.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Speech attributes pronunciation verification anti-phone model Quranic Arabic

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