2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Developing an open source pronunciation tutoring system
| Project/Area Number |
23720285
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
PINTER Gabor 神戸大学, 国際コミュニケー ションセンター, 准教授 (30580691)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | e-ラーニング / コンピュータ支援学習 / 音声訓練 / 語学 |
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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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