Automatic accent classification of foreign accented Australian English speech

An automatic classification system for foreign accents in Australian English (AuE) speech based on accent-dependent parallel phoneme recognition (PPR) has been developed. The classifier is designed to process continuous speech and to discriminate between native AuE speakers and two migrant speaker groups with foreign accents, whose first languages are Lebanese Arabic (LA) and South Vietnamese (SV). The training of the system can be automated and is novel in that it does not require manually labelled accented data. The test utterances are processed in parallel by three (AuE, SV and LA) accent-specific recognizers incorporating accent-specific HMMs and phoneme bigram language models to produce accent discrimination likelihood scores. The best average accent classification rates were 85.3% and 76.6% for accent-pair and three-accent class discrimination tasks, respectively. Analyses of the contributions to accent discrimination by phoneme-level processing and by the language model, are described.

• Publication year

  1996

• Venue

  Proceeding of Fourth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. ICSLP '96

• Publication date

  1996-10-03

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607964
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