Hi,
I am working as a researcher in the field of foreign language teaching. I am planning to carry out a research and I need to auto-grade some sentences uttered by the participants. I was not able to find a website or an application for that. the existing apps do not allow filling in some sentences that I will be using for my research. Thank you.
Dr. Bora Demir
Dr. Ehsan Namaziandost
thanks for your response. That is a nice application but it is pricy. I wonder if there are free ones that enable filling in custom sentences.
There is nothing that I am aware of that will score overall pronunciation automatically that is actually reliable. The problems are:
sound leakage from headphones/speaker to microphone;
unless each candidate is in a soundproofed booth/room, you may have problems with sound carrying between candidates.
There is a web service called EnglishCentral.com that has learners repeat utterances and will grade according to it's own algorithm and output it as English phonemes. It is not free, however.
Hopefully you find a solution, but I imagine that you will have to do it the slow way.
Marc Jones thanks for your comment. Thanks for your suggestions for possible problems that might occur during the recording stage. This will provide much help.
What is the 'standard' English variety that you want to evaluate your participants' pronunciation on? Why do you choose that variety as the standard?
Also, in order to make your scores meaningful, you would need to compare your NNS scores with the scores of ENSs, preferably, of different varieties of English.
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