Speech recognition of foreign accent

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Dewey, John K.
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Fargues, Monique P.
Hippenstiel, Ralph
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1994-06
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June 1994
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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en_US
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This thesis investigates the application of AutoRegressive (AR) modeling techniques on single syllable words to detect foreign accents in spoken American English. The study involves thirty-one native American English speakers, and six native Brazilian speakers. Five different distance measures are used for classification. Results show that correct classification is obtained for 88 % of the native English speakers and 80.5 % of the non-native (foreign) English speakers.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10945/42892
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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72 p.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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