A Preliminary Study on Automated Speaking Assessment of English as a Second Language (ESL) Students

no code implementations • ROCLING 2022 • Tzu-I Wu, Tien-Hong Lo, Fu-An Chao, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen

Due to the surge in global demand for English as a second language (ESL), developments of automated methods for grading speaking proficiency have gained considerable attention.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

An Effective Automated Speaking Assessment Approach to Mitigating Data Scarcity and Imbalanced Distribution

no code implementations • 11 Apr 2024 • Tien-Hong Lo, Fu-An Chao, Tzu-I Wu, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen

Automated speaking assessment (ASA) typically involves automatic speech recognition (ASR) and hand-crafted feature extraction from the ASR transcript of a learner's speech.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +2

A Hierarchical Context-aware Modeling Approach for Multi-aspect and Multi-granular Pronunciation Assessment

no code implementations • 29 May 2023 • Fu-An Chao, Tien-Hong Lo, Tzu-I Wu, Yao-Ting Sung, Berlin Chen

Automatic Pronunciation Assessment (APA) plays a vital role in Computer-assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) when evaluating a second language (L2) learner's speaking proficiency.

Automatic Speech Recognition Multi-Task Learning +4