Week 7 (February 24 – 28, 2014)

Research and Perform Phonetic Error Analysis (For final)

A Python script was written to generate phonetic error rate of final for the entire corpus.

Figure 6 Overall Final Error Analysis

Figure 6 shows the most mispronounced finals and their corresponding top substitution errors. We see that 50% of these top substitution errors are related to nasals, implying that velar nasals are more challenging to produce correctly.