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Nikos Tsourakis

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arXiv2019

Alexa as a CALL platform for children: Where do we start?

Amazon's Alexa is now widely available and shows interesting potential as a platform for hosting CALL games aimed at children. In this paper, we describe an initial informal experiment where we created some simple CALL games and made them available to a few child testers. We report the children's and parents' reactions. Our overall conclusion is that, although Alexa has many positive features, there are still fundamental platform issues in the current version that make it very difficult to build compelling CALL games for children. The games used will soon be freely available for download on the Alexa store.

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arXiv2019

Decentralising power: how we are trying to keep CALLector ethical

We present a brief overview of the CALLector project, and consider ethical questions arising from its overall goal of creating a social network to support creation and use of online CALL resources. We argue that these questions are best addressed in a decentralised, pluralistic open source architecture.

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arXiv2015

Helping Domain Experts Build Speech Translation Systems

We present a new platform, "Regulus Lite", which supports rapid development and web deployment of several types of phrasal speech translation systems using a minimal formalism. A distinguishing feature is that most development work can be performed directly by domain experts. We motivate the need for platforms of this type and discuss three specific cases: medical speech translation, speech-to-sign-language translation and voice questionnaires. We briefly describe initial experiences in developing practical systems.

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