Automated Spoken Language Assessment

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  1. Expert L2 English Speech Evaluation on a Gaming PC: Accuracy, Fluency, and Prosody with XLS-R, XEUS, and PhoneticXeus

    Oct 19, 2026Richard RoseAutomated Spoken Language Assessment

    Hankuk University of Foreign Studies

  2. X-MDD: LLM-Based Mispronunciation Detection and Diagnosis for Unseen Languages with Canonical References

    Oct 16, 2026Xintong Wang, Junchuan Zhao, Ye WangSpeech ProcessingAutomated Spoken Language Assessment

    School of Computing, National University of Singapore

  3. A Novel Sentence Stress Detection Framework Leveraging Auxiliary Word-Stress Modeling and Loss Optimization

    Oct 6, 2026Tien-Hong Lo, Fong-Chun Tsai, Ting-An Hung +3Speech ProcessingSpeech Prosody

    National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

  4. OpenEnded: An Open-Response Speech Corpus for Speaking Proficiency Assessment with Human Annotations and ALM Supervision

    Sep 14, 2026Yu-Wen Chen, Eric Zhou, Evelyn Ding +3Speech ProcessingAutomated Spoken Language Assessment

    Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, USA

  5. Subphonetic Acoustic Modeling via Optimal Transport for Pronunciation Assessment

    Sep 12, 2026Haopeng Geng, Jiun-Ting Li, Daisuke Saito +1Automated Spoken Language AssessmentSpeech Processing

    Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan · Advanced Technology Laboratory, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., Taiwan

  6. When Speech Meets Lips: Interpretable Audio-Visual Synchronization for L2 Pronunciation Assessment

    Sep 6, 2026Bowen Yu, Mingyu Huang, Yishen Liu +1Automated Spoken Language AssessmentAudio-Visual Synchronization

    Wenzhou-Kean University Wenzhou, China

  7. CASA: Content-Acoustic Speaking Assessment with Speech Encoder and Large Language Model

    Aug 13, 2026Nhan Phan, Ilona Lähteenmäki, Anna von Zansen +4Automated EvaluationSpeech Language Models

    Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland · Department of Education, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland · Programmable Autonomous Systems Division, Walton Institute, Waterford, Ireland

  8. Bias Analysis of L2 Speaking Assessment Systems Using Concept Activation Vectors

    Aug 6, 2026Arya Labroo, Mengjie Qian, Kate KnillLanguage Model Bias EvaluationAutomated Evaluation

    University of Cambridge

  9. Controlling Implicit Shortcut Reliance in L2 Spoken English Auto-markers

    Jul 17, 2026Shilin Gao, Mark J. F. Gales, Kate M. KnillEducational AssessmentAutomated Evaluation

    ALTA Institute, Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge University Engineering Department Cambridge, UK

  10. Light-weight Pronunciation Assessment via Discrete Speech Token Surprisal

    Jun 18, 2026Syeda Faiza Ahmed Sara, Shammur Absar ChowdhurySpeech ProcessingAutomated Spoken Language Assessment

    Qatar Computing Research Institute, Doha, Qatar

  11. A Finetuned SpeechLLM for Joint Multi-Granular L2 Assessment and Natural-Language Rationales

    Jun 8, 2026Aditya Kamlesh Parikh, Cristian Tejedor-Garcia, Catia Cucchiarini +1Audio-Language Model EvaluationSpeech Processing

    Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  12. IQRA 2026: Interspeech Challenge on Automatic Pronunciation Assessment for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)

    Mar 31, 2026Yassine El Kheir, Amit Meghanani, Mostafa Shahin +5Automated Spoken Language AssessmentSpeech Processing

    DFKI & Technical University of Berlin, Germany · University of Sheffield, UK · University of New South Wales, Australia +4

  13. Goodness-of-pronunciation without phoneme time alignment

    Mar 26, 2026Jeremy H. M. Wong, Nancy F. ChenAutomated Spoken Language AssessmentSpeech Processing

    Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A⋆STAR, Singapore

  14. An Effective Strategy for Modeling Score Ordinality and Non-uniform Intervals in Automated Speaking Assessment

    Aug 27, 2025Tien-Hong Lo, Szu-Yu Chen, Yao-Ting Sung +1Speech ProcessingOrdinal Regression

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University · Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University

  15. The NTNU System at the S&I Challenge 2025 SLA Open Track

    Jun 5, 2025Hong-Yun Lin, Tien-Hong Lo, Yu-Hsuan Fang +4Audio-Language ModelsAutomated Evaluation

    Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan · Institute of AI Interdisciplinary Applied Technology, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan