TY - GEN
T1 - Analysis of english pronunciation of singing voices sung by Japanese speakers
AU - Yoshida, Kazumichi
AU - Nose, Takashi
AU - Ito, Akinori
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/12/24
Y1 - 2014/12/24
N2 - Singing songs is one of the most popular amusements in Japan. We sing many kinds of songs at occasions such as karaoke. However, it is difficult for most of Japanese native speakers to sing English songs because of difference of phone inventory of the two languages. Nowadays, there are numerous studies of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) systems including the training of English pronunciation, however, there is no system that evaluates English pronunciation of the sung English. We are now investigating how to develop such a system by analyzing English singing voice and the result of subjective evaluation. In this paper, we show the result of the subjective evaluation as well as the analysis results. As a result, we found that not only the number of mispronunciations but also other factors affect the perceived goodness of English pronunciation. We also found that pronunciation scores of the singing voice by singers with singing experience were higher than that of spoken speech, which might mean that the experience of singing improves the skill of English singing.
AB - Singing songs is one of the most popular amusements in Japan. We sing many kinds of songs at occasions such as karaoke. However, it is difficult for most of Japanese native speakers to sing English songs because of difference of phone inventory of the two languages. Nowadays, there are numerous studies of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) systems including the training of English pronunciation, however, there is no system that evaluates English pronunciation of the sung English. We are now investigating how to develop such a system by analyzing English singing voice and the result of subjective evaluation. In this paper, we show the result of the subjective evaluation as well as the analysis results. As a result, we found that not only the number of mispronunciations but also other factors affect the perceived goodness of English pronunciation. We also found that pronunciation scores of the singing voice by singers with singing experience were higher than that of spoken speech, which might mean that the experience of singing improves the skill of English singing.
KW - English songs
KW - Japanese singers
KW - Pronunciation
KW - Subjective evaluation
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U2 - 10.1109/IIH-MSP.2014.143
DO - 10.1109/IIH-MSP.2014.143
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84921656482
T3 - Proceedings - 2014 10th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2014
SP - 554
EP - 557
BT - Proceedings - 2014 10th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2014
A2 - Watada, Junzo
A2 - Ito, Akinori
A2 - Pan, Jeng-Shyang
A2 - Chao, Han-Chieh
A2 - Chen, Chien-Ming
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 10th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, IIH-MSP 2014
Y2 - 27 August 2014 through 29 August 2014
ER -