SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ELSA, a Silicon Valley-based company that uses speech recognition technology and artificial intelligence to help language learners improve their English pronunciation, ...

Speaking is one of the hardest parts of learning a new language, especially if you don’t have someone to practice with regularly. ELSA is an app that helps by using speech recognition technology to ...

Speaking–or at least trying to be comprehensible–is one of the hardest parts of studying a new language. TerraTalk, a Japanese startup, wants to help English learners with a new app that promises to ...

Mastering English pronunciation is a big challenge for non-native speakers of English because most English words are not pronounced as they are spelt. For example, ‘Leicester’ is pronounced ‘les-ter’ ...

Learning English through apps is not a new idea in Vietnam, but in 2018 Vietnam’s startup community saw the arrival of the ELSA app, or “English Language Speech Assistant”, which raised $3.2 million ...

Senior UK Editor — My interest in Android began with the beautiful Nexus 4 and the less-ugly-than-before Jelly Bean. Right now, I'm probably watching Black Books, playing football (soccer), or ...

Vu Van had always been confident in her English speaking skills. Growing up in Nha Trang, Vietnam, she studied English in school and with a private tutor. Her schoolteachers were particularly strict ...

The app asks users how they pronounce certain words or which word they use for a certain thing The way people pronounce the names of baked goods could help academics find out how regional accents have ...