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 • Neasa N{\'\i} Chiar{\'a}in, Ailbhe N{\'\i} Chasaide
Results were overwhelmingly positive to both the learning platform and the synthetic voices and indicate that the time may now be ripe for language learning applications which exploit speech and language technologies.