Kannada Kali: A Smartphone Application for Evaluating Spoken Kannada Words and Detecting Mispronunciations Using Self Organizing Maps

Computer Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT) systems can assist people learning to speak new languages by detecting and correcting mispronunciations. "Kannada Kali" is a prototype Android application that leverages learners' increasing access to smartphones to evaluate the pronunciation of Kannada words and provide feedback using a cloud-based framework. A CAPT system typically uses an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) sub-system. For...