Data Sets

Brunei

ASEAN

Hong Kong + Taiwanese — HK2 : 304

S1 = Taiwanese female
S2 = Hong Kong male

Context: S2 is talking about the unexpected cold weather that sometimes occurs in northern Texas.

S2 : ... so you know s- in the winter time yeah sometimes we have three feet high of snow

Intended Words : three

Heard as : few

Discussion : There are two pronunciation issues with this word which cause it to be misunderstood. First, the initial voiceless TH sound is pronounced as [f] (as is common in Hong Kong). Second, there is no [r].