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    "pk": 27626,
    "title": "ASR Systems as Models of Phonetic Category Perception in Adults",
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    "abstract": "Adult speech perception is tuned to efficiently process native phonetic categories, causing difficulties with certainnon-native categories. For example, Japanese has no equivalent of the distinction between American English /r/ and /l/ and na-tive speakers of Japanese have a hard time discriminating between these two sounds. Here, we ask whether standard AutomaticSpeech Recognition (ASR) systems trained on large corpora of continuous speech can make correct quantitative predictionsregarding such non-native phonetic category perception effects. By training an ASR system on language L1 and evaluatingit on language L2, we obtain predictions for a native L1 speaker tested on L2 phonetic contrasts. Using a variety of L1 andL2, we show that ASR models correctly predict several well-documented effects. Beyond the immediate results, our evaluationmethodology, based on a machine version of ABX discrimination tasks, opens the possibility of a more systematic investigationof computational models of phonetic category perception.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
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    "section": "Posters: Member Abstracts",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Thomas",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Schatz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Ecole Normale Sup ́erieure",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Francis",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Bach",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Ecole Normale Sup ́erieure",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Emmanuel",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Dupoux",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Ecole Normale Sup ́erieure",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T13:00:00-05:00",
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