A pipeline for automatic assessment of foreign language pronunciation

We illustrate our prototype pipeline for automatic analysis and assessment of foreign language speech. It uses automatic speech recognition as a preprocessing step for phonetic analysis and predicts the grade that human experts would give for the utterance. The work is applied in two educational research projects: DigiTala for L2 Swedish for Finnish-speaking high school students, and SIAK ”Say it again, kid!” for L2 English for Finnish-speaking 6-9 year old children.