Design strategies for a virtual language tutor
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In this paper we discuss work in progress on an interactive talking agent as a virtual language tutor in CALL applications. The ambition is to create a tutor that can be engaged in many aspects of language learning from detailed pronunciation to conversational training. Some of the crucial components of such a system is described. An initial implementation of a stress/quantity training scheme will be presented.
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