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NEW DELHI: No more to be worried over your poor spoken English and Grammar. IBM India Research Lab, based in IIT Delhi has come up with a web enabled interactive language technology for improving spoken English. This innovative technology helps BPOs evaluate language skills and identify areas for improvement by highlighting shortcomings and providing examples of correct pronunciation and grammar.
Ashish Verma, Senior Researcher, IBM India Research Lab, said that based on speech recognition and other advanced speech processing techniques, this technology has the potential to help develop the language skills that are absolutely necessary for an individual, company, region and country to compete in a global labor market.
“This technology has the potential to provide significant benefits to both consumers and businesses of all sizes, especially in the countries where English is not the first language. In such countries, learning conversational English is not easy, students, in particular, are always looking for a better tool to help improve their language skills and it is here the technology comes to of great help,” Verma said.
He said that one need to connect the microphone to the PC and speak. The speech gets recorded and evaluated by the application, which rectifies the mistakes and reverts back with the errors.
Verma said that they have carried out the pilot project in BPO, IBM Daksh and have received good results on this new technology. He said that the BPOs, Educational Institutes and services sector could adopt the technology. “While we plan to make further improvement to the technology, if any customers who are interested in this technology, we would be delighted to collaborate with interested customers to best utilize this technology asset that IBM has to meet the needs,” he added.
According to Gartner, end-user spending for speech recognition telephony software will grow from $117 million in 2005 to $191 million in 2010, reflecting compound annual growth of 10.3 per cent.
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