ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2004

Assessment of non-native phones in anglicisms by German listeners

Julia Abresch, Stefan Breuer

By means of a pair comparison test, preferences of German native speakers for English or German sounds in spoken anglicisms were investigated. The collected data can be used as a reference point, which of the English xenophones have to be integrated into a German TTS system to allow for an appropriate pronunciation of anglicisms in German.