OpenPA: Forced-alignment-free Multi-granular Pronunciation Assessment with Mixed-transcript Adaptation

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-09 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-10-09 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-12

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-10-12

Abstract

Recent advances in automatic pronunciation assessment (APA) have driven a shift from scripted to free-form assessment. However, existing methods often rely on multi-stage pipelines with forced alignment and separate feature extractors, limiting their practicality across response settings. In light of this, we propose OpenPA, a novel APA framework that leverages Whisper's cross-attention mechanism

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