| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Pronunciation training, ideally, requires individual supervision, however this amount of human resources are often not available in institutional language education settings. A typical approach an educator with special interest in pronunciation may take is to evaluate language learners' recordings outside classroom. However this approach requires some technical knowledge that can be intimidating for both students and instructors. The aim of this project is to develop and publish software tools that make speech recording and pronunciation evaluation widely available for educators. The source code for an easily customizable desktop application for recording and a server-side tool that manage speech data are available in an open source format at Google Code: https://code.google.com/p/pinsound/. The manual for the recording program, and explanation about server-side setup is available at www.pinlab.info/pinsound/.
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