The Azure Podcast
Melissa Ma, a Senior PM in the Azure product group, talks to us about the new Pronunciation Assessment service and SDK which makes it easy to build linguistic applications that can provide the user with realtime feedback on their speech.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode390.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/SdGeTmJtORw
Resources:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/how-to-pronunciation-assessment?pivots=programming-language-java
https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1379625676815325642-pearson-education-azure-cognitive-services
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-ai/speech-service-update-pronunciation-assessment-is-generally/ba-p/2505501
The Speech SDK supports pronunciation assessment, which assesses the pronunciation quality of speech input, with indicators of accuracy, fluency, completeness, etc.docs.microsoft.com
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Keywords: Cognitive
Filed Under: Podcast
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