New software to help improve your spoken English

By siliconindia   |   Friday, 25 June 2010, 17:36 IST   |    7 Comments
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Bangalore: Libra Interactive Learning, an e-Learning solution provider has unveiled a new software that helps you to master over spoken English. Speak Today, a product of Libra Interactive Learning provides an interactive language learning software. While learning to communicate, one can judge the performance through VIRO (Voice Instruction Recognition Optimizer) meter. The entire process of learning will be carried by the animated characters, who will initiate the conversation with the learner. The animated characters pester the learner to speak in one short conversation and after that the inbuilt VIRO meter gives an instant feedback about his or her accuracy in spoken English. "This software is specially designed to cater the needs of domestic market. One can learn spoken English in a better way because we have enabled this software with a regional language support. The learner can find the translation done in regional language right below the sentence spoken in English by the animated character," said Sunjay Aryan, Managing Director and CEO of Libra Interactive Learning. As of now, the software provides regional language support in Kannada, Tamil and Hindi. Libra Interactive Learning is aiming to facilitate this service in rural areas through franchised smart centers. In a span of 23 days, 30 smart centers have been established in Bangalore. "This software was put on trial in urban areas and after seeing the users benefitting from our product, we decided to do the same in rural areas. And it was good to see that, the software even had an acceptance among the educated youth in rural areas," said Anees Ahamed, Associate VP- Learning solutions, Libra Interactive Learning. The company plans to launch the Kannada version in Tier II cities like Mysore, Mangalore and Hubli. The Tamil to English version will be launched in Tamil Nadu, followed by that, the Hindi to English version will be launched in New Delhi, Mumbai and North India in the current fiscal year. Speak Today is available online and people in semi urban and rural areas can access it through the franchised smart centers. The package is priced between 995 to 2250 and there would be discounts for educational institutes.

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