Children at Peace High School, Edi Bazaar, Hyderabad India, working on their computer.
| In a novel deployment of multimedia software, the first experiment in English pronunciation at NIIT was conducted in 2002 in which groups of children attempted to improve their pronunciation using an English language learning software, some English films and a speech to text software engine. The experiment showed that speech to text software trained in an appropriate voice can act as an evaluator of accent and clarity of speech as well as help learners acquire a standard way of speaking. It also showed that groups of children can operate a computer and improve their clarity of speech on theor own, with no intervention from teachers. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology information Technologies and International Development, Volume 1, Number 1, Fall 2003, 741–83 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=11113&ttype=6 |
| For more details contact: Sugata Mitra, Parimala Inamdar |