Development of Japanese read-word database for non-native speakers of Japanese

Kimiko Yamakawa; Shigeaki Amano; Mariko Kondo

doi:10.1109/ICSDA.2014.7051422

Development of Japanese read-word database for non-native speakers of Japanese

Kimiko Yamakawa, Shigeaki Amano, Mariko Kondo

School of International Liberal Studies

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A Japanese read-word database was developed for 343 Japanese words spoken by 129 non-native speakers of Japanese (Korean, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, French, and English speakers) and 18 native speakers of Japanese. The Japanese words had a contrast of segments such as single/geminate stops, normal/lengthened vowels, existence/inexistence of moraic nasal, contracted sound/vowel /i/, and voiced/voiceless consonants that non-native speakers of Japanese frequently mispronounce. The speech files of the Japanese words and phoneme labels for a part of the speech files were registered in the database. The database will contribute to scientific research on characteristics of Japanese speech by non-native speakers. It will also contribute to develop a computer aided learning system of Japanese speech for non-native speakers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Oriental COCOSDA 2014 - 17th Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment / CASLRE (Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479970940
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSDA.2014.7051422
Publication status	Published - 2014 Feb 27
Event	17th Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment, Oriental COCOSDA 2014 - Phuket, Thailand Duration: 2014 Sept 10 → 2014 Sept 12

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Other	17th Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment, Oriental COCOSDA 2014
Country/Territory	Thailand
City	Phuket
Period	14/9/10 → 14/9/12

Keywords

Japanese
Non-native speakers
read word database

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Computer Science Applications
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Yamakawa, K., Amano, S., & Kondo, M. (2014). Development of Japanese read-word database for non-native speakers of Japanese. In Oriental COCOSDA 2014 - 17th Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment / CASLRE (Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation) Article 7051422 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSDA.2014.7051422

Development of Japanese read-word database for non-native speakers of Japanese. / Yamakawa, Kimiko; Amano, Shigeaki; Kondo, Mariko.
Oriental COCOSDA 2014 - 17th Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment / CASLRE (Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. 7051422.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Yamakawa, K, Amano, S & Kondo, M 2014, Development of Japanese read-word database for non-native speakers of Japanese. in Oriental COCOSDA 2014 - 17th Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment / CASLRE (Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation)., 7051422, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 17th Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment, Oriental COCOSDA 2014, Phuket, Thailand, 14/9/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSDA.2014.7051422

Yamakawa K, Amano S, Kondo M. Development of Japanese read-word database for non-native speakers of Japanese. In Oriental COCOSDA 2014 - 17th Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment / CASLRE (Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2014. 7051422 doi: 10.1109/ICSDA.2014.7051422

Yamakawa, Kimiko ; Amano, Shigeaki ; Kondo, Mariko. / Development of Japanese read-word database for non-native speakers of Japanese. Oriental COCOSDA 2014 - 17th Conference of the Oriental Chapter of the International Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech I/O Systems and Assessment / CASLRE (Conference on Asian Spoken Language Research and Evaluation). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014.

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