ABOUT THIS SITE
This ESL Robots Project creates online electronic tutors to help English language learners practice speaking English. Each robot is an expert on one topic. To use this site, study the conversations first by reading and listening to them several times, and then try practicing these conversations with the robot. Type in your question, and then click the SAY button or hit the ENTER key on your keyboard, and the robot will reply with its computer voice. If your computer has speech recognition software, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking, you can simply speak into your microphone instead of typing your questions. It is also interesting to chat with the robot. You can ask any questions to see what responses you get. NOTE: The responses are not always correct or appropriate. Such responses will be eliminated as we fine-tune the robot.
This project is under development at Pasadena City College, California, USA. It is improving as more people use it. Please send your comments to me by email. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. If you use the program to learn English, please spend a few minutes to answer the survey questions. Thank you very much for using the program and contributing feedback. All the data collected will be used for the research and development of the project only.
The ESL Robots project is looking for partners. Colleges that are interested in the project and want to support and help develop more ESL robots can contact me to discuss the possibility of forming a consortium to make it a joint project. We also welcome suggestions about funding sources to continue and expand the project.
Ron Lee (Rong-Chang Li), Ph.D.
Los Angeles, USA