William Liu is grateful that he finished high school when he did. If the latest AI tools had been around then, he told me, he might have been tempted to use them to do his homework. Liu, now a ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

Anthropic on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Vercept, an AI startup with deep roots to some of the biggest names in Seattle’s tech scene. The acquisition marks the latest after Anthropic ...

Parents often hear the warning: “If your child doesn’t learn a second language early, they’ll never be fluent.” Adults, meanwhile, are told: “It’s just too late for you to learn now.” These claims are ...

Language learning is deeply personal—but some languages are, objectively, more accessible to native English speakers than others. Factors like shared roots, familiar grammar rules, a common writing ...

Abstract: Computer -- assisted -- language -- learning or CALL is one of a number of names to describe the way that computers are used to complement (although not necessarily to replace) classroom ...

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Abstract: Mispronunciation detection and/or diagnosis (MDD) plays an important role in computer-aided language learning (CALL) systems. It remains a research challenge mainly because of the great ...

The core objective of this study is to develop a novel method to measure and improve standard spoken English pronunciation accuracy in relation to a desired accent style using current speech ...

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Your host in Osaka, Japan, slips on a pair of headphones and suddenly hears your words transformed into flawless Kansai Japanese. Even better, their reply in their native tongue comes through ...