Evelyn Ding

OpenEnded: An Open-Response Speech Corpus for Speaking Proficiency Assessment with Human Annotations and ALM Supervision

The development of automated speaking assessment (ASA) is limited by the scarcity of public datasets, with most existing work relying on read-aloud speech, which limits applicability to real-world communication scenarios. In this work, we introduce OpenEnded, a corpus of English practice speech from Mandarin speakers i...