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Abstract
Automatic spontaneous speaking assessment systems bring numerous advantages to second language (L2) learning and assessment such as promoting self-learning and reducing language teachers' workload. Conventionally, these systems are developed for languages with a large number of learners due to the abundance of training data, yet languages with fewer learners such as Finnish and Swedish remain at a disadvantage due to the scarcity of required training data. Nevertheless, recent advancements in self-supervised deep learning make it possible to develop automatic speech recognition systems with a reasonable amount of training data. In turn, this advancement makes it feasible to develop systems for automatically assessing spoken proficiency of learners of underresourced languages: L2 Finnish and Finland Swedish. Our work evaluates the overall performance of the L2 ASR systems as well as the the rating systems compared to human reference ratings for both languages.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2022 - Proceedings |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 339-345 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 979-8-3503-9690-4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2023 |
MoE publication type | A4 Conference publication |
Event | IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop - Doha, Qatar Duration: 9 Jan 2023 → 12 Jan 2023 |
Publication series
Name | 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2022 - Proceedings |
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Conference
Conference | IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop |
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Abbreviated title | SLT |
Country/Territory | Qatar |
City | Doha |
Period | 09/01/2023 → 12/01/2023 |
Keywords
- automatic speaking assessment
- low-resource
- Wav2Vec2
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DigiTala: Aka-Digi Tala
Kurimo, M. (Principal investigator), Al-Ghezi, R. (Project Member), Getman, Y. (Project Member) & Voskoboinik, E. (Project Member)
01/09/2019 → 31/08/2023
Project: Academy of Finland: Other research funding