French Pronunciation

Reflections on Pronunciation Scoring

I would not hold the pronunciation score too seriously as it:

• Only compares the text transcription, not the actual sound
• Doesn't account for French-specific pronunciation rules
• Might mark correct pronunciations as wrong if the speech recognition transcribes them differently

In an ideal world I would want to implement a more sophisticated scoring system. One that:

• Uses phonetic comparison instead of text comparison
• Adds French-specific pronunciation rules
• Considers confidence scores from the speech recognition
• Compares sound patterns rather than just text

And also of course some form of AI/ML-based Pronunciation Scoring - from looking around something like using advanced models wav2vec2 or other open-source speech models (Hugging Face Transformers) if I were comfortable with machine learning deployment.