Professor Kondo and Professor Detey organized an International Workshop in Waseda on “Speech assessment and native and non-native linguistic variation” with Prof. J. G. Hansen Edwards (CUHK), Dr. L. Fontan (Archean Labs) and V. De Fino (Toulouse III University)

Professor Mariko Kondo and Professor Sylvain Detey organized an International Workshop on 06/10/2023 on the following topic “Speech assessment and native and non-native linguistic variation: trends and methods” with three Invited Speakers: Prof. J. G. Hansen Edwards (CUHK), Dr. L. Fontan (Archean Labs) and V. De Fino (Toulouse 3 University).

The program included the following presentations:

Prof. HANSEN EDWARDS –
Which phonetic features impact English intelligibility, comprehensibility and accentedness for listeners of different proficiency levels?’

Verdiana DE FINO –
Automatic assessment of L2 speech from proficiency to comprehensibility: illustration among Japanese learners of French

Dr. Lionel FONTAN –
Automatic assessment of speech fluency in the contexts of language acquisition and speech pathologies 

Dr. Ruben PEREZ RAMON  (School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda U.) –
Manipulation of foreign accent without synthesis: naturalness and flexibility in speech technologies 

Ryuki MATSUURA (Graduate School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda U.) –
Automated scoring of second language speech in dialogue

Nicole CAPRIOLI (Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda U.) –
The role of creativity in foreign language acquisition: how creative self-efficacy influences learners’ foreign language performances

Dr. Kakeru YAZAWA  (University of Tsukuba) –
Bidirectional influences between L1 accentedness/comprehensibility and L2 proficiency

Many students and colleagues attended the workshop, and the discussions were rich and lively.