AÑO
2017
CATEGORÍA
Aprendizaje y Juego
OBJETIVOS
Educación de calidad
PAL. CLAVE
Language , app, learning
PAÍS
Canada
CRÉDITOS
Nicole Petryliak and the AccentFree team
LINK
http://www.accentfree.ca/index.html
AccentFree
AccentFree is a personal linguistics engine to help retrain how people speak.
AccentFree is dedicated to levelling the playing field for ESL speakers, giving them equal career and social opportunities, by turning smartphones into personal linguistic tutors.
People have difficulty speaking new languages because their mouths have been trained to move in a different way.
The basic technology behind our apps works for all human languages. We are offering English and French initially simply because we began in Western Canada and those are our two official languages. We plan to offer other languages as soon as possible. Indeed, our prototypes supports both Swahili and English.
We are also in discussions with academics at the University of Alberta to use AccentFree’s technology to help preserve languages and dialects at risk of disappearing.