Correcting Mispronunciations in Speech using Spectrogram Inpainting. (arXiv:2204.03379v2 [eess.AS] UPDATED)

Learning a new language involves constantly comparing speech productions with
reference productions from the environment. Early in speech acquisition,
children make articulatory adjustments to match their caregivers' speech.
Grownup learners of a language tweak their speech to match the tutor reference.
This paper proposes a method to synthetically generate correct pronunciation
feedback given incorrect production. Furthermore, our aim is to generate the
corrected production while maintaining the speaker's original voice.

The system prompts the user to pronounce a phrase. The …

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