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SpecialSession
Speech and Language in Education
  • Panel discussion
  • Björn Granström
  • Centre for Speech Technology (CTT), KTH
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Key questions, mostly in pronunciation training
  • How to identify pronunciation “errors” (automatically)
  • Feedback - How and when?
  • What are the aims of L2 learning
    • Less accentedness
    • Comprehensibility
    • Intelligibility
    • More? – Acceptability in context
  • Economy of language learning
  • Could a virtual tutor help?
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Reiko Yamada ATR, 1999
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Feedback display
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Unacceptable pronunciation needs to be identified
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Virtual tutor prototype first tried at the VISPP summerschool in Palmse,
August 2005 (for Estonian)
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Nordic project –NordPlus Sprog
Using VILLE – CTT Virtual Language Tutor
  • More than pronunciation!
    Move towards conversational partner
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The virtual teacher vision already at STiLL
Marholmen 1998!
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The cost of pronunciation errors
  • Video