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  <Title>ELICITING NATURAL SPEECH FROM NON-NATIVE USERS: COLLECTING SPEECH DATA FOR LVCSR</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A final question is how many of our observations are Ll-dependent. It is true that Japanese speakers show some common patterns in their speech and tend to be very self-conscious about speaking. Japanese is written with a non-roman script and this probably influences both comprehension in the spontaneous tasks and reading accuracy in the read tasks. Japanese is very different from English grammatically, pragmatically, and phonotactically. Many of our observations may not be consistent with observations in collection with native speakers of German, for example. In this respect, though, it is really an ideal case study for the purposes of uncovering all the stumbling blocks we may encounter when designing data collection for non-native speakers. We found that speakers' reading ability was generally much higher than their conversational ability; Byrne's study (1998) found that their lowest skill level speakers had some conversational ability but no reading ability. The important thing to recognize is that the reading level - speaking level correspondence is among the variables that should be evaluated in order what_sort_of appearance with go should QuEs What should I wear? Do we need to wear the formal dress or we can wear the casual one? What kind of clothes do I have to wear for there? In .what kind of dresses should I go there? Should I oh should I go formal with formal style? What should I wear to go there? bus/boat/train etc. GEN last_trip GEN time What time is the last return train/bus/ferry? What time is the last train to go back to my house? What time is the last transportation from there? Do you know what time is the last bus ships or trains to return? When does the final bus or ship or train? What time is the final bus? child discount Is there a children's discount? Is there any discount for the for child Do they have a discount for children When I buy the ticket for children are there any discount Is there special children cost How much is the fee for children  sample English response at the top of each series. to design an effective data collection protocol.</Paragraph>
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