As I mentioned in my last post on Indian accent reduction, India is in some ways an English speaking country already. Unfortunately, while Indian English is the standard for some 125 million English users in India, this regional form of English can be hard for Americans to understand. The bi...
And English, with its own distinctive Indian accent and vocabulary, remains the only official language of the country that does not provoke communal conflict. To many, the experience of British rule is a bitter memory, but it is only Hindus who may maintain the same kind of animus against ...
Nevertheless, learning Indian English is an achievable goal for those who engage with the language actively. Partnering with an Indian English speaker for regular conversation practice can be immensely beneficial. It not only helps in understanding the particularities of pronunciation and vocabulary but ...
It is then passed on to an indigenously developed text-to-speech system for Hindi/Indian English, to generate spoken output. The text-to-speech conversion is performed in three stages: text analysis, to establish pronunciation, phoneme to acoustic-phonetic parameter conversion and, lastly, ...
• Perfect for pronunciation - record yourself as you practise speaking the language for yourself. You can do this as many times as you like to perfect your accent. • Visual - our beautiful pictures link words with images to accelerate how your brain learns, using visual recall to help ...
I can impersonate an Indian accent humourously and when I do it to her because she can't understand my accent, she can't understand a single word I speak.Non-native speakers of English tend to carry over the intonation and phonemic inventory from their mother tonque into their Englis...
Barkana, B., Patel, A.: Analysis of vowel production in Mandarin/Hindi/American- accented English for accent recognition systems. Appl. Acoust. 16, 107203 (2020) Article Google Scholar Akçay, M., Oğuz, K.: Speech emotion recognition: emotional models, databases, features, preprocessing ...
PronunciationSyllablesTeaching AssistantsThe phonetic correlates of accent/stress distinguish Indian English (IE) from American dialects (Spencer, 1957; Kachru, 1983). We examine the realization of accent in IE compared to American English (AE) produced by teaching assistants in similar contexts. In ...
• Perfect for pronunciation - record yourself as you practise speaking the language for yourself. You can do this as many times as you like to perfect your accent. • Visual - our beautiful pictures link words with images to accelerate how your brain learns, using visual recall to help ...
English (IE) is accented by the first language of its speakers, but high English proficiency and the degree of divergence between the sound patterns of the speaker's native language and his or her IE suggested that other factors might influence the preservation of a native language accent in ...