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Establishing Conversational Pedagogical Agents as Credible Knowledge Providers: the Case of Synthesized Italian English

We show that data collection and processing in an international research project is possible and feasible and provides suggestions for best practices

Stefanie Meyer, Sven Albrecht, Maximilian Eibl, Günter Daniel Rey, Josef Schmied, Rewa Tamboli, Stefan Taubert, Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl

Establishing Conversational Pedagogical Agents as Credible Knowledge Providers: the Case of Synthesized Italian English

This contribution investigates whether an artifical agent speaking a non-native variety of English improves learning outcomes.

Sven Albrecht, Rewa Tamboli, Stefan Taubert, Felicia Meusel, Maximilian Eibl, Günter Daniel Rey, Josef Schmied

Towards a Vowel Formant Based Quality Metric for Text-to-Speech Systems: Measuring Monophthong Naturalness

This contribution proposes an objective, vowel formant based quality metric for assessing the naturalness of monophthongs synthesized by Text-to-Speech (TTS) systems.

Sven Albrecht, Rewa Tamboli, Stefan Taubert, Maximilian Eibl, Günter Daniel Rey, Josef Schmied

Corpus-Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Determiner Usage in Chinese Student Writing Testing the Fluctuation Hypothesis

This paper investigates the Fluctuation Hypothesis using corpus and cognitive methods.

Sven Albrecht