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-Prediction of L2 speech proficiency bades on multi-level linguistic features
+Prediction of L2 speech proficiency based on multi-level linguistic features
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 This repository is part of an Interspeech paper (edition 2022) focusing on the prediction of speech proficiency of L2 learners.