High disposable income, nowhere to spend it |
Speech technology has moved on a lot in the last 20 years but the problem arises at the recognition level. Human beings have different speeds of delivery, they have different accents. |
The main thing is that they offer opportunities for much more intensive practice on a one-to-one basis. |
There are units in grammar, and units in vocabulary and even online where's there's audio support and video support. A great deal of this is based on visual interaction and visual memorizing, |
We'd definitely like to see snow, but life goes on. You've got to deal with what you've got. |
We've moved on through tape recorders to video, through to multimedia computers, |