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Automatic speech recognition and pronunciation learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2025

Shannon McCrocklin  and
John Levis Open the ORCID record for John Levis [Opens in a new window]
Shannon McCrocklin
Affiliation:
Linguistics, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA
John Levis*
Affiliation:
English, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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Corresponding author: John Levis; Email: jlevis@iastate.edu
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Language Teaching , First View , pp. 1 - 17
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