I'm a recruiter for engineers & plenty of my candidates can't get jobs, or get below par salary because their English pronunciation is weak.
I have developed over 4 years a CD set of lessons that they repeat parrot fashion words and sentences to make their intonation & accent like the local standard (Australian).
It works!...after 5 hours there are noticeable improvements.
However it is so boring that the candidates tend not to apply themselves.
I want to develope an interactive program where they can score themselves against my words & sentences
....like typing tutor.
I want to play my sentences out, record their repeating of it & then come up with a score as to the match.
I know nothing about voice recognition & would welcome anyone who can help or who would like to work on the project with me.
Michael Shineberg
Shine-Institute@tpg.com.au
michael.shineberg@mcarthur.com.au
+612 9891 9250
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2007-06-12
Michael -- you describe a useful application. However, it might be more ambitious undertaking than you think!
The people at Carnegie Speech in Pittsburgh have built a startup company around the same concept (probably for American, rather than Australian English). You might want to talk to the people there (in particular, Maxine Eskenazi). See http://www.carnegiespeech.com/.
cheers,
jerry
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I'm a recruiter for engineers & plenty of my candidates can't get jobs, or get below par salary because their English pronunciation is weak.
I have developed over 4 years a CD set of lessons that they repeat parrot fashion words and sentences to make their intonation & accent like the local standard (Australian).
It works!...after 5 hours there are noticeable improvements.
However it is so boring that the candidates tend not to apply themselves.
I want to develope an interactive program where they can score themselves against my words & sentences
....like typing tutor.
I want to play my sentences out, record their repeating of it & then come up with a score as to the match.
I know nothing about voice recognition & would welcome anyone who can help or who would like to work on the project with me.
Michael Shineberg
Shine-Institute@tpg.com.au
michael.shineberg@mcarthur.com.au
+612 9891 9250
Michael -- you describe a useful application. However, it might be more ambitious undertaking than you think!
The people at Carnegie Speech in Pittsburgh have built a startup company around the same concept (probably for American, rather than Australian English). You might want to talk to the people there (in particular, Maxine Eskenazi). See http://www.carnegiespeech.com/.
cheers,
jerry