Posts Tagged ‘pronunciation’

Automatic spoken translation

Friday, October 30th, 2009

How cool is this? Speak into your Iphone in English and get a spoken translation in Arabic (and vice versa). I actually saw a device that did this (I think by the same company) but it was a dedicated piece of (expensive) hardware. Having this available on your Iphone (it’s not public yet), would be amazing.

Automated test of spoken English - demo

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

You may have heard of Versant, an automated test of spoken English that is taken over the phone and takes only 15 minutes. It uses speech recognition for its scoring. I just found a demo of how it works online, which is quite neat: http://www.versanttest.co.uk/free_demo.htm

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