An Arabic Mispronunciation Detection System Based on the Frequency of Mistakes for Asian Speakers

Over the last few decades, the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning has evolved. Due to the advancement in these fields, much work has been done to assist language learning with the help of computers called Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Mispronunciation detection is on...

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Main Authors: Faria Nazir, Muhammad Nadeem Majeed, Mustansar Ali Ghazanfar, Muazzam Maqsood
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Language:English
Published: Mehran University of Engineering and Technology 2021-04-01
Series:Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology
Online Access:https://publications.muet.edu.pk/index.php/muetrj/article/view/2081
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author Faria Nazir
Muhammad Nadeem Majeed
Mustansar Ali Ghazanfar
Muazzam Maqsood
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description Over the last few decades, the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning has evolved. Due to the advancement in these fields, much work has been done to assist language learning with the help of computers called Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Mispronunciation detection is one of the significant tasks of the CALL system. An efficient mispronunciation detection model has a positive impact on the life of second language learners by providing phoneme level feedback. In this paper, we introduce the phone grouping technique for mispronunciation detection that is based on mistakes probability. We consider mispronunciation detection as a classification problem, traditionally for this purpose, a separate classifier is trained for each phoneme mistake that requires a lot of memory and time. Instead of training a separate classifier, we group the phoneme based on their mistakes probability that helps in reducing the number of the classifiers to be trained and also saves memory and time. We use the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier and test the results on the Arabic dataset (28 Phonemes). The performance of our proposed method is evaluated by using accuracy. The results of the model are evaluated using the confusion matrix and gives an accuracy of 88%. Our approach outperforms the existing systems developed for Arabic phonemes in terms of accuracy and is also time/memory efficient.
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spelling doaj.art-70dbf2a5c6d241fc8c017bbbe895951b2022-12-21T20:32:49ZengMehran University of Engineering and TechnologyMehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology0254-78212413-72192021-04-0140227929710.22581/muet1982.2102.032081An Arabic Mispronunciation Detection System Based on the Frequency of Mistakes for Asian SpeakersFaria Nazir0Muhammad Nadeem Majeed1Mustansar Ali Ghazanfar2Muazzam Maqsood3Department of Software Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan.Department of Software Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan.Department of Computer Science, The School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London, London, United Kingdom.Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information and Technology, Islamabad, Attock Campus, Pakistan.Over the last few decades, the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning has evolved. Due to the advancement in these fields, much work has been done to assist language learning with the help of computers called Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Mispronunciation detection is one of the significant tasks of the CALL system. An efficient mispronunciation detection model has a positive impact on the life of second language learners by providing phoneme level feedback. In this paper, we introduce the phone grouping technique for mispronunciation detection that is based on mistakes probability. We consider mispronunciation detection as a classification problem, traditionally for this purpose, a separate classifier is trained for each phoneme mistake that requires a lot of memory and time. Instead of training a separate classifier, we group the phoneme based on their mistakes probability that helps in reducing the number of the classifiers to be trained and also saves memory and time. We use the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier and test the results on the Arabic dataset (28 Phonemes). The performance of our proposed method is evaluated by using accuracy. The results of the model are evaluated using the confusion matrix and gives an accuracy of 88%. Our approach outperforms the existing systems developed for Arabic phonemes in terms of accuracy and is also time/memory efficient.https://publications.muet.edu.pk/index.php/muetrj/article/view/2081
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Muhammad Nadeem Majeed
Mustansar Ali Ghazanfar
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Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering and Technology
title An Arabic Mispronunciation Detection System Based on the Frequency of Mistakes for Asian Speakers
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title_fullStr An Arabic Mispronunciation Detection System Based on the Frequency of Mistakes for Asian Speakers
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title_short An Arabic Mispronunciation Detection System Based on the Frequency of Mistakes for Asian Speakers
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