{"id":10275,"date":"2019-04-22T17:51:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/?p=10275"},"modified":"2021-09-21T20:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:44:45","slug":"using-speech-recognition-to-improve-chinese-pronunciation-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hackingchinese.com\/using-speech-recognition-to-improve-chinese-pronunciation-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How good is voice recognition for learning Chinese pronunciation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the previous article, we started exploring how speech recognition can be used to improve your Mandarin pronunciation. The main goal of that article was to investigate false negatives, or in other words, when the speech recognition says something is wrong ,but it’s actually correct.<\/p>\n

Can speech recognition be used to learn Mandarin pronunciation?<\/h3>\n

The conclusion was that speech recognition was very good at identifying two-syllable words and sentences, but not as good when it came to single-syllable words. The takeaway for learners was that if your pronunciation is very good, the speech recognition on your phone probably will likely be able to identify what you say.<\/p>\n

This article continues where the first one left off. If you haven’t read that article yet, I suggest that you do so before reading this one. I will try to not repeat to many things from last time and will assume that you have read the first article. You can find it here:<\/p>\n

Using speech recognition to improve Chinese pronunciation, part 1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tune in to the Hacking Chinese Podcast<\/a> to listen to the related episode:<\/em>
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