A Native-Reference Coordinate Geometry for L2 Pronunciation Deviation Using Self-Supervised Speech Models

arXiv:2609.28060 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Code: https://github.com/aalto-speech/native-L2-coordinate-geometry

Terminology

• Alignment — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hidden Markov Model — 1× in this paper
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Self-supervised Speech Comparison for L2 Phone, Rhythm, and Intonation Scoring
• Lhotse: a speech data representation library for the modern deep learning ecosystem

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