Pronunciation training in Dutch as a second language on the basis of automatic speech recognition

Samenvatting

We studied a group of immigrants who were following regular, teacher-fronted Dutch classes, and who were assigned to three groups using either a) Dutch- CAPT, a Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) that provides feedback on a number of Dutch speech sounds that are problematic for L2 learners, b) a CAPT system without feedback, c) no CAPT system. Participants were tested before and after the training. The results show that the ASR-based feedback was effective in correcting the errors addressed in the training.