Thanks, Jane, for posting this.
I, for one, would be delighted to see an independent review of this product.
Is anybody interested in trying to get a review copy and pursuing it?
Peter
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>Apologies for cross-postings. Members might be interested in this, from the
>Linguistics Society of Hong Kong.
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>Jane
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>One of our investee companies called United Education Ltd, HK and
>Shanghai based is about to launch its flagship product called PhonePass SET
>(pls visit www.phonepasschina.com), which is an automated spoken English
>language benchmarking test utilizing recognition of spoken utterances with
>analysis of the manner of speaking to determine language proficiency and
>other speaker characteristics. PhonePass SET and the technology behind it
>are developed by Ordinate Corporation (www.ordinate.com) in the US. Pls
>note the technology is language independent and PhonePass SET for Spanish is
>already developed followed shortly by Japanese, Korean and hopefully
>Chinese!
>
>The launch event is scheduled in the afternoon of Nov 14 at the Conrad
>Hotel. We would be delighted if you could attend the event and would be
>happy to invite any colleague of yours whom you think would also be
>interested. Attached is our invitation.
>
>Pls note CL3 of HKUST has been our sub-distributors for PhonePass SET
>and some of their academic staffmembers may also attend. To have a
>taste of what it may look like, please dial our server on 3471 4000 and key
>in the Test ID of 9160 2407. The relevant test paper and
>instruction is attached below.
>
>B Rgds,
>
>Gary
>
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Professor of Phonetics, Emeritus Canon of the Cathedral
Church, Los Angeles
Telephone: 310 441 5909
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