no code implementations • ComputEL (ACL) 2022 • Branislav Bédi, Hakeem Beedar, Belinda Chiera, Nedelina Ivanova, Christèle Maizonniaux, Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Manny Rayner, John Sloan, Ghil’Ad Zuckermann
We describe recent extensions to the open source Learning And Reading Assistant (LARA) supporting image-based and phonetically annotated texts.
no code implementations • LREC 2022 • Elham Akhlaghi, Ingibjörg Iða Auðunardóttir, Anna Bączkowska, Branislav Bédi, Hakeem Beedar, Harald Berthelsen, Cathy Chua, Catia Cucchiarin, Hanieh Habibi, Ivana Horváthová, Junta Ikeda, Christèle Maizonniaux, Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Chadi Raheb, Manny Rayner, John Sloan, Nikos Tsourakis, Chunlin Yao
Samples of audio totalling about five minutes, representing the same four passages taken from LARA versions of Saint-Exupèry’s “Le petit prince”, were provided for each language in both human and TTS form; the passages were chosen to instantiate the 2x2 cross product of the conditions dialogue, not-dialogue and humour, not-humour.
no code implementations • READI (LREC) 2022 • Elham Akhlaghi, Ingibjörg Iða Auðunardóttir, Branislav Bédi, Hakeem Beedar, Harald Berthelsen, Cathy Chua, Catia Cucchiarini, Brynjarr Eyjólfsson, Nedelina Ivanova, Christèle Maizonniaux, Neasa Ní Chiaráin, Manny Rayner, John Sloan, Sigurður Vigfússon, Ghil’Ad Zuckermann
We present an overview of LARA, the Learning And Reading Assistant, an open source platform for easy creation and use of multimedia annotated texts designed to support the improvement of reading skills.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Elham Akhlaghi, Branislav B{\'e}di, Fatih Bekta{\c{s}}, Harald Berthelsen, Matthias Butterweck, Cathy Chua, Catia Cucchiarin, G{\"u}l{\c{s}}en Eryi{\u{g}}it, Johanna Gerlach, Hanieh Habibi, Neasa N{\'\i} Chiar{\'a}in, Manny Rayner, Stein{\th}{\'o}r Steingr{\'\i}msson, Helmer Strik
LARA (Learning and Reading Assistant) is an open source platform whose purpose is to support easy conversion of plain texts into multimodal online versions suitable for use by language learners.
no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Claudia Baur, Johanna Gerlach, Manny Rayner, Martin Russell, Helmer Strik
We argue that the field of spoken CALL needs a shared task in order to facilitate comparisons between different groups and methodologies, and describe a concrete example of such a task, based on data collected from a speech-enabled online tool which has been used to help young Swiss German teens practise skills in English conversation.
no code implementations • 7 Oct 2015 • Manny Rayner, Alejandro Armando, Pierrette Bouillon, Sarah Ebling, Johanna Gerlach, Sonia Halimi, Irene Strasly, Nikos Tsourakis
We present a new platform, "Regulus Lite", which supports rapid development and web deployment of several types of phrasal speech translation systems using a minimal formalism.
no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Claudia Baur, Manny Rayner, Nikos Tsourakis
We present an English-L2 child learner speech corpus, produced by 14 year old Swiss German-L1 students in their third year of learning English, which is currently in the process of being collected.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Matthew Fuchs, Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner
We describe a scalable architecture, particularly well-suited to cloud-based computing, which can be used for Web-deployment of spoken dialogue systems.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Johanna Gerlach
We describe an experiment carried out using a French version of CALL-SLT, a web-enabled CALL game in which students at each turn are prompted to give a semi-free spoken response which the system then either accepts or rejects.
no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Nikos Tsourakis, Manny Rayner
Speech and hand gestures offer the most natural modalities for everyday human-to-human interaction.