STiLL - Speech Technology in Language Learning May 25-27, 1998 Marholmen, Sweden

How Can Speech Technology Replicate and Complement Good Language Teachers to Help People Learn Language?

Patti Price

Speech Technology and Research Laboratory, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Speech technology can complement and enhance traditional methods of language learning. However, without people who know how to use them, books do nothing for literacy, computers do nothing for computation, and speech technology does nothing for language learning. This paper surveys some of what we are now learning about the use of speech technology in language learning, and outlines what we have yet to learn. The paper is intended to inspire discussion and to ask more questions than it answers.

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Bibliographic reference.  Price, Patti (1998): "How can speech technology replicate and complement good language teachers to help people learn language?", In STiLL-1998, 81-86.