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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2012
Klaus Zechner, Princeton, NJ (US);
Su-youn Yoon, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Lei Chen, Pennington, NJ (US);
Shasha Xie, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Xiaoming Xi, Pennington, NJ (US);
Chaitanya Ramineni, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Klaus Zechner, Princeton, NJ (US);
Su-Youn Yoon, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Lei Chen, Pennington, NJ (US);
Shasha Xie, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Xiaoming Xi, Pennington, NJ (US);
Chaitanya Ramineni, Lawrenceville, NJ (US);
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for scoring non-native speech. Two or more speech samples are received, where each of the samples are of speech spoken by a non-native speaker, and where each of the samples are spoken in response to distinct prompts. The two or more samples are concatenated to generate a concatenated response for the non-native speaker, where the concatenated response is based on the two or more speech samples that were elicited using the distinct prompts. A concatenated speech proficiency metric is computed based on the concatenated response, and the concatenated speech proficiency metric is provided to a scoring model, where the scoring model generates a speaking score based on the concatenated speech metric.