2009 Presentations (Communicative Events)

Responses to Ville: A virtual language teacher for Swedish

Wik, Preben; Hincks, Rebecca; Hirschberg, Julia Bell

A series of novel capabilities have been designed to extend the repertoire of Ville, a virtual language teacher for Swedish, created at the Centre for Speech technology at KTH. These capabilities were tested by twenty-seven language students at KTH. This paper reports on qualitative surveys and quantitative performance from these sessions which suggest some general lessons for automated language training.