Context The teaching of foreign languages often requires the use of audiovisual contents to make learners more familiar with native speech production and to improve their oral communication skills. However, the tasks of selecting and preparing these contents for a didactic purpose can be weighty task and thus limit the number of documents exploited by foreign language teachers. In order
Impact of gestures on the pronunciation of foreign language learners Main issues and objectives Context The issue of associating gesture and speech in a second language learning context (L2) emerged from a workshop organized by the project partners involved at different levels in L2 learning. Starting from a first reflection on the technical possibilities of combining gesture production and pronunciation
Open source smart assistant dedicated to companies and profesional usages Main issues and objectives Context As part of its strategy to develop innovative open source tools in collaborative context, LINAGORA, leader of the LinTO project, aims at designing a smart conversational assistant dedicated to companies. This assistant, named after the project, provides speech-driven services to company staff members. On one