Tamás Grósz

Also published as: Tamas Grosz


2024

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Collecting Linguistic Resources for Assessing Children’s Pronunciation of Nordic Languages
Anne Marte Haug Olstad | Anna Smolander | Sofia Strömbergsson | Sari Ylinen | Minna Lehtonen | Mikko Kurimo | Yaroslav Getman | Tamás Grósz | Xinwei Cao | Torbjørn Svendsen | Giampiero Salvi
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

This paper reports on the experience collecting a number of corpora of Nordic languages spoken by children. The aim of the data collection is providing annotated data to develop and evaluate computer assisted pronunciation assessment systems both for non-native children learning a Nordic language (L2) and for L1 children with speech sound disorder (SSD). The paper presents the challenges encountered recording and annotating data for Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian, as well as the ethical considerations related with making this data publicly available. We hope that sharing this experience will encourage others to collect similar data for other languages. Of the different data collections, we were able to make the Norwegian corpus publicly available in the hope that it will serve as a reference in pronunciation assessment research.

2023

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Automated Assessment of Task Completion in Spontaneous Speech for Finnish and Finland Swedish Language Learners
Ekaterina Voskoboinik | Yaroslav Getman | Ragheb Al-Ghezi | Mikko Kurimo | Tamas Grosz
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning

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CaptainA - A mobile app for practising Finnish pronunciation
Nhan Phan | Tamás Grósz | Mikko Kurimo
Proceedings of the 24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)

Learning a new language is often difficult, especially practising it independently. The main issue with self-study is the absence of accurate feedback from a teacher, which would enable students to learn unfamiliar languages. In recent years, with advances in Artificial Intelligence and Automatic Speech Recognition, it has become possible to build applications that can provide valuable feedback on the users’ pronunciation. In this paper, we introduce the CaptainA app explicitly developed to aid students in practising their Finnish pronunciation on handheld devices. Our app is a valuable resource for immigrants who are busy with school or work, and it helps them integrate faster into society. Furthermore, by providing this service for L2 speakers and collecting their data, we can continuously improve our system and provide better aid in the future.