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Anthony Schmidt summarizes a 2016 article by S. M. McCrocklin: “The potential of Automatic Speech Recognition.” He concludes with some ideas that you can use with your students and automatic speech recognition:

•    “Minimal pairs practice – provide students with a list of minimal pairs of a difficult set of phonemes
•    “Tongue twisters – provide students with a tongue twister with a target sound or pair of sounds
•    “Dictation – give students a short passage and get them to read it aloud, trying to voice type it verbatim
•    “Thought groups – get students to divide a short passage into thought groups, and then get students to voice type each thought group as fluently and accurately as possible
•    “Speak, speak again! – students respond to a question by voice typing without stopping. Then, they look over their answer, highlight their errors, and practice the correct pronunciation (perhaps using Forvo to find exemplars). Finally, students voice type their answer again, trying to avoid the initial errors.”

Read the full article summary at http://www.eltresearchbites.com/201701-pronunciation-autonomy-and-automatic-speech-recognition/