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.
