Alan Schwartz

EnglishCentral

About

Alan Schwartz began teaching English in China for Princeton-in-Asia and has been in EdTech for two decades, first, working with Sony to build TALKMAN, a mobile language translation game using speech technology, and now with EnglishCentral, the leading online platform for conversational English, with over 2 million users. Alan has a B.A. from Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard University.

Sessions

Technology The Evolution of Speech Recognition and English Learning more

Sat, Nov 13, 11:25-12:25 Asia/Tokyo

This presentation covers the IntelliSpeech assessment system developed by EnglishCentral as well as AI-based speech solutions from other providers in the English learning market. It reviews the use of these technologies in read-aloud applications, elicited imitation, sentence building and finally conversational chatbots. The accuracy and efficacy of these systems are discussed as well as the pedagogy that underpins them.

Alan Schwartz