- 한국인을 위한 영어 말하기 시험의 컴퓨터 기반 유창성 평가
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- 장병용,권오욱,Jang. Byeong-Yong,Kwon. Oh-Wook
- ㆍ 간행물명
- 말소리와 음성과학
- ㆍ 권/호정보
- 2014년|6권 2호|pp.9-20 (12 pages)
- ㆍ 발행정보
- 한국음성학회
- ㆍ 파일정보
- 정기간행물| PDF텍스트
- ㆍ 주제분야
- 기타
In this paper, we propose an automatic fluency evaluation algorithm for English speaking tests. In the proposed algorithm, acoustic features are extracted from an input spoken utterance and then fluency score is computed by using support vector regression (SVR). We estimate the parameters of feature modeling and SVR using the speech signals and the corresponding scores by human raters. From the correlation analysis results, it is shown that speech rate, articulation rate, and mean length of runs are best for fluency evaluation. Experimental results show that the correlation between the human score and the SVR score is 0.87 for 3 speaking tests, which suggests the possibility of the proposed algorithm as a secondary fluency evaluation tool.