Plugin for automatisation of phonetic-phonological analysis andobtaining analytical feedback for Spanish learners

  1. Tamara Couto-Fernández 1
  2. Albina Sarymsakova 2
  3. Nelly Condori-Fernández 1
  4. Patricia Martín-Rodilla 1
  1. 1 University of A Coruña, Faculty of Computer Science
  2. 2 University of A Coruña, Faculty of Philology
Book:
SEPLN-PD 2022: Annual Conference of the Spanish Association for Natural Language Processing 2022: Projects and Demonstrations
  1. Miguel A. Alonso (ed. lit.)
  2. Margarita Alonso-Ramos (ed. lit.)
  3. Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez (ed. lit.)
  4. David Vilares (ed. lit.)
  5. Jesús Vilares (ed. lit.)

Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Year of publication: 2022

Pages: 83-87

Type: Book chapter

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Abstract

We present in this article the Plugin for phonetic-phonological analysis in Spanish (PAFe),which consists of a series of scripts (a code written with a programming language (Python) that,implement three different intonation comparison algorithms of an ELE (Spanish as a foreignlanguage) student and a native speaker of Spanish), allowing, in turn, three different types ofanalysis: global, tonal tendency and intersyllabic. In addition, PAFe has a database to keep ahistory of different types of data (user profile, pronunciation exercises and audios) and agraphical interface to include reports on pronunciation evolution in Praat, a tool for acousticanalysis. PAFe is a software solution that offers new functionalities of Praat and allows thefollowing: (i) to perform a comparative analysis between the intonational patterns of an ELEstudent and a native speaker; (ii) to report the evolution of the acquisition of such patterns inSpanish thanks to the history of the stored data. In this way, automated feedback is provided toboth students and teachers.

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