A web-based english listening system for learning different pronunciations in various countries

Abstract

The rapid progress of globalization has been increasing our opportunity to have English communication with various people living in different countries. In this study, we focus on ‘local-pronunciation English’, which is English that has characteristics in pronunciation and accent depending on countries and areas, and propose an English listening system for learning different local-pronunciation English in various countries and areas. The feature of our system is that our system can extract countries and areas where English speech is relatively easy to understand to a learner by the sound characteristics, based on the listening learning history of local-pronunciation English. This function allows each learner to learn English listening step by step according to the learner’s listening capability. In this study, we evaluate the feasibility of our system using a Web-based prototype.