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| Title | Rapidly Testing the Interaction Model of a Pronunciation Training System via Wizard-of-Oz |
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| Authors | Joao Paulo Cabral, Mark Kane, Zeeshan Ahmed, Mohamed Abou-Zleikha, Eva Szekely, Amalia Zahra, Kalu Ogbureke, Peter Cahill, Julie Carson-Berndsen and Stephan Schlogl |
| Abstract | This paper describes a prototype of a computer-assisted pronunciation training system called MySpeech. The interface of the MySpeech system is web-based and it currently enables users to practice pronunciation by listening to speech spoken by native speakers and tuning their speech production to correct any mispronunciations detected by the system. This practice exercise is facilitated in different topics and difficulty levels. An experiment was conducted in this work that combines the MySpeech service with the WebWOZ Wizard-of-Oz platform (http://www.webwoz.com), in order to improve the human-computer interaction (HCI) of the service and the feedback that it provides to the user. The employed Wizard-of-Oz method enables a human (who acts as a wizard) to give feedback to the practising user, while the user is not aware that there is another person involved in the communication. This experiment permitted to quickly test an HCI model before its implementation on the MySpeech system. It also allowed to collect input data from the wizard that can be used to improve the proposed model. Another outcome of the experiment was the preliminary evaluation of the pronunciation learning service in terms of user satisfaction, which would be difficult to conduct before integrating the HCI part. |
| Topics | Evaluation methodologies, Tools, systems, applications, Usability, user satisfaction |
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Rapidly Testing the Interaction Model of a Pronunciation Training System via Wizard-of-Oz |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{CABRAL12.974, author = {Joao Paulo Cabral and Mark Kane and Zeeshan Ahmed and Mohamed Abou-Zleikha and Eva Szekely and Amalia Zahra and Kalu Ogbureke and Peter Cahill and Julie Carson-Berndsen and Stephan Schlogl}, title = {Rapidly Testing the Interaction Model of a Pronunciation Training System via Wizard-of-Oz}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |