International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vol 12, No 3: June 2022

English speaking proficiency assessment using speech and electroencephalography signals

Abualsoud Hanani (Birzeit University)
Yanal Abusara (Birzeit University)
Bisan Maher (Birzeit University)
Inas Musleh (Birzeit University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jun 2022

Abstract

In this paper, the English speaking proficiency level of non-native English speakerswas automatically estimated as high, medium, or low performance. For thisĀ purpose, the speech of 142 non-native English speakers was recorded and electroencephalography (EEG) signals of 58 of them were recorded while speaking in English. Two systems were proposed for estimating the English proficiency level of the speaker; one used 72 audio features, extracted from speech signals, and the other used 112 features extracted from EEG signals. Multi-class support vector machines (SVM) was used for training and testing both systems using a cross-validation strategy. The speech-based system outperformed the EEG system with 68% accuracy on 60 testing audio recordings, compared with 56% accuracy on 30 testing EEG recordings.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJECE

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of ...