SpeakRussian™
Overview
At Carnegie Speech, we believe that accurate, engaging and respectful spoken language communications is a requirement for business, government and educational institutions. To support these institutions, Carnegie Speech developed a spoken Russian training product that enables rapid and cost-effective Russian training.
Features
SpeakRussian is designed to improve spoken Russian among English speakers with Advanced Beginner or Intermediate spoken Russian skills. Because SpeakRussian is accessible via the internet or desktop, spoken Russian training is now available: anytime – anywhere. Specific features include:
- Assessments and extensive training curriculum in Pronunciation, Vocabulary, Grammar, Listening Comprehension and Reading.
- Intelligent tutor creates a personalized curriculum for each student.
- Flashcard system gradually builds skills in recognition, pronunciation and generation.
- Dialogues provide opportunity for active participation by the student.
- Immediate, patented Pinpointing technology and targeted remediation tells students exactly what was wrong with their pronunciation and exactly how to fix it.
- Exercises train bi-directionally between Russian and English and create multiple memory indices to improve learning effectiveness and efficiencies.
- Timed-practice exercises improve fluency.
- Extensive reporting tracks progress for students and instructors.
How it Works
Carnegie Speech products use a combination of speech recognition and our proprietary pinpointing technology to model a student's speaking characteristics, analyze speech proficiency and develop personalized spoken language training curriculum for each student. Carnegie Speech's products compare each student's spoken language against a composite statistical model of Russian speakers' speech to pinpoint errors and give detailed and effective remediation instruction.
SpeakRussian is built on an extensible software platform featuring Speech Recognition and Artificial Intelligence technologies under exclusive license from Carnegie Mellon University to enable interactive, personalized spoken Russian instruction.
By modeling each user's speaking characteristics and analyzing their speech proficiency against a statistical model of native Russian speakers, SpeakRussian pinpoints speech errors and provides immediate, actionable and user-specific feedback. Instruction and correction is presented in text, audio and graphics to be intuitive and relevant to the student. Like all Carnegie Speech products, SpeakRussian runs on the desktop or the Internet, which makes spoken Russian language instruction available: anytime – anywhere.