Corrective feedback, emphatic speech synthesis, visual-speech exaggeration, pronunciation learning

09/12/2020
by   Yaohua Bu, et al.
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To provide more discriminative feedback for the second language (L2) learners to better identify their mispronunciation, we propose a method for exaggerated visual-speech feedback in computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT). The speech exaggeration is realized by an emphatic speech generation neural network based on Tacotron, while the visual exaggeration is accomplished by ADC Viseme Blending, namely increasing Amplitude of movement, extending the phone's Duration and enhancing the color Contrast. User studies show that exaggerated feedback outperforms non-exaggerated version on helping learners with pronunciation identification and pronunciation improvement.

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