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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Before Going to Tokyo, I Tried Learning Japanese With ChatGPT

Wired

On the final day of my visit to Japan, I’m alone and floating in some skyscraper’s rooftop hot springs, praying no one joins me. For the last few months, I’ve been using ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode as an AI language tutor, part of a test to judge generative AI’s potential as both a learning tool and a travel companion. To …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Duolingo Unveils ‘Learn English from Tamil’ Course to Empower Tamil Nadu Learners

Deccan Chronicle

Duolingo has unveiled its latest course, ‘Learn English from Tamil.’ This launch is tailored to meet the needs of Tamil speakers, helping them build English proficiency and access greater academic and professional opportunities. With this course, Duolingo reaffirms its commitment to enabling Tamil speakers to achieve their aspirations confidently and effectively Fourth Indic Language Course on Duolingo The ‘Learn English …

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4 months ago

IIT Bombay launches TARA app to boost students' reading fluency nationwide

India Today

The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has introduced a mobile application, TARA, designed to evaluate and improve oral reading fluency in students. According to Professor Preeti Rao from IIT Bombay’s Department of Electrical Engineering, who spearheaded the project, TARA uses audio recordings of children reading passages aloud and generates key ORF metrics, including Words Correct Per Minute. Dr. Shailaja Menon, …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Get A Lifetime Of Learning At Rosetta Stone For Just $149 With Their Early Black Friday Deal

Huff Post

Rosetta Stone/Canva Rosetta Stone The Real Deal: We use deal trackers and commerce experience to sift through “fake” hike-and-drop deals and other deceptive sales tactics. Well, get out a big, fat marker and get ready to cross it off, because right now at Rosetta Stone, you can treat yourself to a lifetime of learning — that’s a one-time purchase for …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Duolingo launches AI-powered calls and adventures for language learners

India TV News

Duolingo, the leading language learning app, has recently announced exciting new features at its Duocon 2024 conference. Using technology to improve learning Luis von Ahn, Duolingo's CEO, shared the company’s vision, saying, “We want to provide the best education to everyone, and technology is the key to making that happen.” With the new AI-powered features, Duolingo hopes to create fun …

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7 months, 1 week ago

These two apps will help your child start reading like a pro

LA Times

Reading by 9’s back-to-school guide. This method, “letters and sounds,” is a systematically applied approach to phonics that can be easily taught at home when introducing literacy at an early age. These are our two favorite applications for independent and accompanied learning when it comes to beginning your child’s phonics journey at home. Learn to read by Poio Pros: polished …

Child Your Child Pro Learning Read

11 months ago

IIIT Hyderabad Develops English Learning Tool for Rural Students

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Researchers at the Raj Reddy Centre for Technology and Society at IIIT Hyderabad said they had developed an English learning tool for students, particularly in rural areas. The model provides feedback at various levels including phoneme emphasis, tonal variations, and syllable stress, although the current version focuses primarily on syllable stress, IIIT said Since its pilot launch in March …

English Tool Iiit

1 year, 5 months ago

How to Use Your Phone Addiction to Actually Learn Stuff

Wired

I swear I used to have more time than I do now. There are plenty of apps that can put your phone addiction to work, allowing you to learn new things during what would be downtime. What I really find fascinating, though, is how many design cues Duolingo takes from video game design in order to make learning addictive. This …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Duolingo introduces English learning course for Telugu speakers

India TV News

US-based language learning app Duolingo has expanded its Indian language courses by launching an English learning course for Telugu speakers. This new offering aims to empower Telugu speakers by providing a free and engaging platform to master English, recognizing the language's significance in career enhancement and accessing educational resources. Duolingo's Karandeep Singh Kapany stated that this initiative follows the success …

India Language English Learning Speakers Telugu Speakers Telugu Course

2 years ago

3 Things to look for in a speaking course - STEP - English Learning Blog - Online English Course in India

The Hindu

We are pleased to offer you the role of Associate at our …” Words that should have made Ravi happier beyond words. In personalised English language teaching courses, the tutor observes the learner’s needs and goals in order to decide how best to help the learner achieve them. The benefits of personalised online speaking course The main advantage of personalised …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Soon You Won't Need Siri Or Alexa To Use Voice Assistant: Here's How

News 18

Open-source smart home platform Home Assistant will get a new voice assistant next year, that will allow users to talk to the platform’s assistant without Google, Siri or Alexa. The new assistant will allow users to control Home Assistant in their own language, Paulus Schoutsen, founder of Home Assistant, wrote in a blog post. The platform’s first priority is to …

Language Assistant Voice Assistant Schoutsen Home Assistant

2 years, 6 months ago

How My Daughter and I Learned to Speak the Same Language

Wired

My tween daughter was bored and antsy as we waited for dinner at a local restaurant. I took four years of Spanish in high school but haven’t used those skills since meeting the basic requirements in a college placement test. I wanted to understand more about the program and why so many people—including my daughter and me—got hooked, so I …

Way My Daughter Duolingo

2 years, 8 months ago

Delhi Government to Offer Free Spoken English Course to Youngster

News 18

In a bid to enhance English speaking skills among the youth, the Delhi government will start a free spoken English programme. It would help develop one’s personality, and also improve the student’s job prospects,” the chief minister was quoted as saying by news agency ANI. It would help develop one's personality, and also improve the student's job prospects: Delhi CM …

Delhi Youngster Kejriwal Delhi Government English Course

3 years, 8 months ago

A mentoring programme conducted over phone helps government school students with spoken English

The Hindu

Twelve-year-old Subhartra and 10-year-old Kossi were unwittingly raising their voices to a high pitch, as they were talking into a phone, repeating the popular tongue twister “She sells seashells on the sea shore”. “I introduce tongue twisters whenever the girls are tired of the regular lessons,” says Uthaya B, a volunteer with the Express Phone Mentoring programme. Talent Quest for …

Volunteer English Students School Student Phone Programme

3 years, 10 months ago

Podcast platform Ximalaya gives new voice to Shigatse people

China Daily

Voice Tibet Shigatse Ximalaya Podcast Platform

4 years, 2 months ago

From Hindi to Korean, a global language-learning trend that grew word by word

Live Mint

Language learners had a busy time last year. According to the 2020 Duolingo Language Report released in December, 30 million people around the world took up a new language on the language education platform’s app and website in the weeks after covid-19 lockdowns. We saw housewives, other working professionals and even school students learning across languages,” says Anuradha Agarwal, founder …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Learn languages with Rosetta Stone: This 'social distancing bundle' has been reduced by 76%

Daily Mail

If you've suddenly found yourself with more time on your hands, a couple of the best ways to fill it are by learning a language or working your way though the books you never got around to reading. For $199, you will receive a lifetime subscription to language learning with Rosetta Stone, as well as a lifetime subscription to the …

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4 years, 11 months ago

Apple aims to make Siri better for us so it takes over AI startup

India TV News

Apple has acquired Dublin-based startup Voysis, a conversational artificial intelligence platform that enables third parties to integrate high-quality voice and natural language capabilities into their products. The Cupertino-based tech giant is expected to use Voysis' technology to improve its virtual assistant Siri and the financial details of the deal have not been disclosed yet, The Irish Times reported late Friday. …

Siri Voysis

5 years, 5 months ago

If Learning A New Language Was Your 2019 Resolution, There's Still Time To Get Started. Here's How.

Huff Post

HuffPost may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. mapodile via Getty Images If learning a new language in 2019 was at the top of your list of New Year’s resolutions, there’s still time with the right tools. If learning a new language in 2019 was at the top of your New Year’s resolutions, there’s still …

Language English Learning Help Spanish Vip Learn

5 years, 6 months ago

With an eye on next 200 mn internet users, Flipkart introduces Hindi interface

Live Mint

New Delhi: Flipkart on Tuesday announced the introduction of Hindi interface on its platform to make it more engaging and meaningful for the next 200 million customers coming online to experience e-commerce in a more inclusive and seamless manner. The Hindi interface, brought about after months of intensive research, takes a holistic approach of understanding the needs and requirements of …

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5 years, 9 months ago

User-ease â€˜Vokalâ€™ Tamil app launched

Deccan Chronicle

Coimbatore:‘Vokal’, a vernacular question and answer knowledge sharing platform, launched mobile application in Tamil, here on Saturday. Speaking at the launch, Aprameya Radhakrishna, CEO, Vokal, said, “Anyone who does not know English in India has a big problem in accessing relevant answers to their questions. We invite the best of Coimbatore to share knowledge with the rest of Tamil Nadu.” …

Knowledge Tamil Vokal

5 years, 9 months ago

Amazon Alexa to talk to you in impeccable Hindi soon

Live Mint

India is a key growth market for Alexa's global team at Amazon and witnessing the potential, the team is working on to introduce more regional language capabilities in the voice-based assistant that has stormed the living rooms in the country. "Yes, we are working on infusing regional languages capabilities in Alexa for the Indian market but these are early days, …

India Language Indian Hindi Alexa Prasad

55 years, 3 months ago

Google May Have Finally Made a Truly Usable Voice Assistant

Wired

Millions of people routinely say “hey” to voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, even though the experience can be frustratingly glitchy. On Tuesday, Google previewed new technology that makes speech recognition strikingly more responsive, suggesting voice control could soon be seamless enough to be irresistible. CEO Sundar Pichai called that a “milestone” because it means software that traditionally lives in …

Google Siri Voice Assistant

6 years, 2 months ago

Indigenous languages get a much-needed boost thanks to StoryWeaver, an online platform

Firstpost

Storybooks in tribal languages are an excellent tool for primary education in those languages. This is where an online platform like StoryWeaver — developed by Pratham Books with support from Google — comes in. “StoryWeaver is a collaborative platform that attempts to address the scarcity of multilingual, joyful reading material for children,” says Purvi Shah, who heads Digital Initiatives for …

Education India English Books Tribal Languages Platform

6 years, 5 months ago

Can technology help improve the language learning experience?

Hindustan Times

With the growth in population, there stands a dichotomy of opportunities; domestic and global for Indians. With growing opportunities at the global level and the increasing learning base, young learners want to leave no stone unturned while pursuing their dream careers. Technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine and Deep Learning are paving way for major innovations in the field of education …

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6 years, 6 months ago

Microsoft releases data set for speech training in Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati

Firstpost

Microsoft’s Indian Language Speech Corpus was tested at Interspeech 2018 conference in Hyderabad. To help researchers and academia build Indian language speech recognition for all applications where speech is used, Microsoft India on Thursday launched its Indian language “Speech Corpus”, offering speech training and test data for Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati. “Microsoft Indian Language Speech Corpus is an extension of …

Language Research Data Indian Microsoft Speech Corpus

6 years, 7 months ago

Flipkart acquires speech recognition start-up Liv.ai

India TV News

India's leading e-tailer Flipkart on Tuesday said it had acquired artificial intelligence -led speech recognition start-up Liv.ai to solve the language-barrier problem for its customers across the country. "Acquisition of Liv.ai positions us to solve the language barrier problem for adoption of e-commerce as the start-up has developed speech-to-text platform in nine Indian languages," said the retail giant Walmart-owned e-commerce …

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6 years, 7 months ago

Apps using unique technology algorithms to ease our life

ABP News

New Delhi, Aug 18 : Today, technology algorithms are making us the king of our lives with Artificial intelligence algorithm, machine learning algorithms etc where machines can think and work like humans. Here are few apps which are giving us the ease to live a better life: NoBroker.com Tenants have been paying brokerage year on year without seeing any advantage …

Elsa

6 years, 8 months ago

Duolingo launches Hindi course for English speakers in India

India TV News

After the success of its English course for Hindi speakers, the US-based free language-learning app Duolingo on Thursday announced the launch of its Hindi course for English speakers in India. Worldwide, the company has 200 million users and claims that it has about 8.6 million Hindi speakers learning English globally. "Spoken by over 500 million people worldwide, Hindi is one …

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6 years, 11 months ago

Mobile learning start-up EdMobile Labs raises Rs5.5 crore from Unitus Seed Fund, others

Live Mint

New Delhi: EdMobile Labs Pvt. Ltd, a Pune-based mobile learning start-up, on Thursday said it raised Rs5.5 crore from impact investor Unitus Seed Fund and some angel investors. Formerly called Sling App, Utter is a chatbot-style mobile learning app aimed at imparting English and on-the-job productivity skills to an increasing digital blue-collar workforce. A combination of AI, multilingual chatbots, and …

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7 years ago

Makers of new app hope to transform Mandarin teaching

China Daily

Students check out the new Voice Blox device that aims to help non-native Mandarin speakers with their tones. Matthew Rice, after being similarly misunderstood while trying to hold a conversation, has developed a tool that he hopes will help non-native speakers get to grips with Mandarin’s tones and accents. Rice, with three fellow students from Imperial College London – Gao …

Rice Imperial Tone Mandarin Speakers

7 years, 2 months ago

Five techie tools for getting to grips with Dutch

Dutch News

If learning Dutch was one of your New Year resolutions but you don’t fancy going back to the classroom, help is at hand. The Travis team see the product as part of a global mission ‘to bridge language barriers, spark connection and contribute to positive social change.’ Prices start at around €200. The magic headphones Pixel Buds are Google’s first …

Language Dutch Learning App Help Pro Users

7 years, 2 months ago

Five techie tools for getting to grips with Dutch

Dutch News

If learning Dutch was one of your New Year resolutions but you don’t fancy going back to the classroom, help is at hand. The Travis team see the product as part of a global mission ‘to bridge language barriers, spark connection and contribute to positive social change.’ Prices start at around €200. The magic headphones Pixel Buds are Google’s first …

Language Dutch Learning App Help Pro Users

7 years, 4 months ago

Chat up locals with this language school subscription that's on sale for under $20

Salon

If you're planning on spending a lot of time in an airport, on a train or some other form of transportation as you make your way to visit family and friends for the holidays, you might as well pick up some new language skills. From networking, to traveling, to earning a promotion or even landing a new job, it's tremendously …

Language

8 years ago

Newly developed AI system can efficiently lip-read better than human

Firstpost

A new software program has been developed that can lip-read as good as humans. Developed by scientists at the Oxford University this breakthrough could give people with hearing disabilities a little hope. The system is said to use computer vision and machine learning methods wherein it learns how to lip-read from a dataset included more than 5,000 hours of TV …

Ai Developed

8 years, 7 months ago

Experiment shows smartphone speech recognition faster than typing

China Daily

SAN FRANCISCO - Results from an experiment suggest that speech recognition, in case of composing text messages on smartphone, can be faster and more accurately than humans can type on phone screens. "They grew up texting, so we're putting speech recognition up against people who are really good at this task," James Landay, a professor of computer science at Stanford …

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8 years, 10 months ago

Now, a Hindi wordgame app for smart devices

Firstpost

Aiming to tap regional languages, funkhel.com on Monday announced a free contemporary Hindi wordgame app for smart devices – the first in a series of apps to be soon launched in other Indian languages too. The Hindi FunKhel app is based on the “shabdkoshish” wordgame, an innovative system developed in 1990s that introduced universal symbols for “maatras” and half consonants …

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9 years, 10 months ago

How to learn 30 languages

BBC

How to learn 30 languages Getty Images Some people can speak a seemingly impossible number of tongues. Getty Images If you want to stay sharp in old age, learning a language could be the best neural workout Those lasting benefits are a stark contrast to the failure of most commercial “brain training” games you can download – which generally fail …

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9 years, 10 months ago

Still learning lessons after years of teaching[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily

When I first started classes at Three Bridges English School I was pretty nervous. The "speak your native tongue slowly" rule caught me out when I spent a holiday in Hong Kong with my grandsons two years later. I spent hours searching English as a Second Language sites on the Internet, learning games and then adapting them to my classes. …

Teaching English

9 years, 10 months ago

Still learning lessons after years of teaching[1]- Chinadaily.com.cn

China Daily

When I first started classes at Three Bridges English School I was pretty nervous. The "speak your native tongue slowly" rule caught me out when I spent a holiday in Hong Kong with my grandsons two years later. I spent hours searching English as a Second Language sites on the Internet, learning games and then adapting them to my classes. …

Teaching English

10 years, 5 months ago

学习语言你必须知道的十件事[1]

China Daily

Make realistic, specific goals You have decided to learn another language. Phil McGowan, director at Verbmaps, recommends making these goals tangible and specific: “Why not set yourself a target of being able to read a newspaper article in the target language without having to look up any words in the dictionary?” 2. Alex Rawlings, a language teacher now learning his …

Learning Language Learn

10 years, 5 months ago

学习语言你必须知道的十件事[1]

China Daily

Make realistic, specific goals You have decided to learn another language. Phil McGowan, director at Verbmaps, recommends making these goals tangible and specific: “Why not set yourself a target of being able to read a newspaper article in the target language without having to look up any words in the dictionary?” 2. Alex Rawlings, a language teacher now learning his …

Language Learning

10 years, 5 months ago

学习语言你必须知道的十件事[1]

China Daily

Make realistic, specific goals You have decided to learn another language. Phil McGowan, director at Verbmaps, recommends making these goals tangible and specific: “Why not set yourself a target of being able to read a newspaper article in the target language without having to look up any words in the dictionary?” 2. Alex Rawlings, a language teacher now learning his …

Language Learning Learn

12 years, 10 months ago

The 10 best language products

The Independent

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. BBC Languages Online Free, bbc.co.uk The …

Language Free Bbc

13 years, 5 months ago

How the IPad Is Teaching My Son to Talk

Wired

This is my son. They're lovely people, but we'd heard stories of parents fighting to keep the device with their kids after school and over holidays. I point this out, because it's important to get some expert opinions involved before you go spending hundreds of dollars on apps. I'll toss in that the free Verbally app works great for fluent …

My Son Ipad

14 years ago

Scientists in search of a common language with dolphins

China Daily

BOB DOUGHTY: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. FAITH LAPIDUS: University professors in computer sciences have a good idea about the growing number of apps that are becoming available. BOB DOUGHTY: Marc Buchner says the way people get apps is also different from earlier methods of getting software. FAITH LAPIDUS: Being able to carry apps anywhere …

English Mobile Mobile Devices Google Mobile Apps Iphone Dolphins

14 years ago

Review: SpeechTrans and Google Translate at Home and On the Road

Wired

Hometest recommendation: At $19.99 for the SpeechTrans application versus Google Translate for free, I have to go with Google Translate. Speechtrans TM © Copyright 2009 SpeechTrans Inc. Road Test Translation requires a quick internet connection. Google Mobile © 2011 Google Inc. Roadtest review: The Google Translate app has a superior interface and functionality in my view. Overall the free Google …

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