NativeAccent®
Overview
Making yourself understood to native English speakers – and understanding what they are saying – is rapidly becoming a business and personal imperative in the interconnected, global economy.
Through its powerful yet intuitive English pronunciation, grammar and fluency exercises, NativeAccent helps individuals and enterprises from around the world better speak with and understand one another.
NativeAccent can improve spoken English scores by 50% to 100% with as little as 20 hours training while decreasing training time and costs by up to 50%. By improving financial, operational and customer satisfaction metrics, NativeAccent makes spoken English training both effective and cost-efficient.
Features
NativeAccent includes the training technologies and learning features that have helped users from around the world improve their spoken English skills. NativeAccent accommodates each user's native language, skills and learning pace to build a curriculum that is both personalized and relevant. Patent-pending pinpointing technologies provide immediate, understandable and actionable feedback, and a personalized curriculum from the Intelligent Tutor lets NativeAccent users rapidly learn to speak and understand English.
NativeAccent enables effective spoken English training through the following unique features:
- Extensive, detailed curricula in English pronunciation, grammar, fluency and prosodics (word stress, pace and pausing, etc.).
- Precisely pinpointing where speech errors are made while they are being made. Training remediation to the student gives detailed instructions on exactly how to eliminate errors through text, graphics and audio. This eliminates the student's frustration with ineffective trial and error remediation methods.
- The Intelligent Tutor adjusts the curriculum to train students based on their native language skills and individual proficiency.
- Curricula are flexible to accommodate client operating requirements and customized to meet individual learning requirements. Results are objective and can be compared across individuals, units or the entire enterprise.
- Progress reports e-mailed to users and supervisors on a weekly basis.
- With contrastive language analysis between English and over 50 different native languages, Carnegie Speech's spoken English training systems can quickly scale across international enterprises.
How it Works
Leveraging an extensible software platform using Speech Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Technologies under exclusive global license from Carnegie Mellon University, NativeAccent trains speakers by comparing the user's spoken words against a composite model of native English speakers, taking into account relevant gender, geography and other cultural contexts. Based on this comparison, a personalized language training curriculum is developed for each user, with patent-pending pinpointing technology indentifying speaking errors and providing immediate, detailed English remediation instruction.
NativeAccent is available on a CD, LAN and internet, making spoken English training accessible: anytime – anywhere.