Walcir Cardoso
List of John Benjamins publications in which Walcir Cardoso is involved.
Articles
2025 Exploring automatic speech recognition for corrective and confirmative pronunciation feedback Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 11:2, pp. 213–239 | Article
Given that second language pronunciation errors are typically variable, learners would benefit from feedback that both flags errors (corrective feedback) and confirms correct pronunciation (confirmative feedback). We investigated Google Translate (GT) automatic speech recognition (ASR)… read more
2024 Assessing pronunciation using dictation tools: The use of Google Voice Typing to score a pronunciation placement test Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 10:1, pp. 10–34 | Article
Language institutions need efficient and reliable placement tests to ensure students are placed in appropriate classes. This can be achieved by automating the scoring of pronunciation tests via the use of speech recognition, as its reliability has been shown to be comparable to that of human… read more
2005 An Integrated Approach to Variation in OT: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese and Picard Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2003: Selected papers from ‘Going Romance’ 2003, Nijmegen, 20–22 November, Geerts, Twan, Ivo van Ginneken and Haike Jacobs (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article