Automaatika referaat (eng)
an automatic pronunciation scoring system, EduSpeakTM, which measures phone accuracy,
speech rate, and duration distributions for non-native speakers who read English texts
(Franco et al., 2000). Unlike in Ordinate's test, the texts being read need not be known to
the system for prior training.
At Educational Testing Service (ETS), research in automated speech scoring has
been conducted since 2002. In 2006 a first speech scoring system, SpeechRaterSM, was
successfully deployed to score the speaking section of TOEFL
Practice Online (TPO)
This is an environment that helps students prepare for the Test of English as a Foreign
Language (TOEFL). Unlike for the aforementioned predecessors, the goal for
developing SpeechRater is to provide scoring for assessments that cover a wide range of
speaking proficiency (i.e., not only pronunciation) and to elicit spontaneous and natural
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