{"id":1251,"date":"2011-09-17T20:28:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T20:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2011-09-17T20:28:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T20:28:59","slug":"chat-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/17\/chat-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Chat robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/SpeakGlobal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/SpeakGlobal.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SpeakGlobal\" width=\"163\" height=\"72\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1252\" \/><\/a>A Japanese company claims to have invented the first robots that can chat with people.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically designed for English language learners, the \u201cchatbots\u201d are accessed online. The online characters use high-speed speech recognition technology which allows them to interact in real time with students. Students can also participate in the chatbots\u2019 virtual world.<br \/>\nInterestingly, the level of conversation can be adjusted depending on the student\u2019s needs, and dialogue also appears on screen in English.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Telegraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The &#8220;chatbots&#8221; are currently targeting Japanese students learning English however the company is planning to expand internationally.<br \/>\nThe concept was inspired by the lack of opportunity for many Japanese students unable to afford costly lessons to practice speaking native English, according to SpeakGlobal. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The percentage of Japanese who can actually speak English freely is in the low single digits,&#8221; added the company. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is due to the lack of opportunities to practice speaking with native English speakers. While many English conversation schools and online schools exist, some simply cannot afford this luxury.&#8221; (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/news\/8759635\/Japan-creates-online-chat-robots-to-converse-with-language-students.html \">Telegraph<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure how I\u2019d feel about interacting with a \u201cchatbot\u201d, but I suppose it is less scary than practicing your language skills with a live person \u2013 robots can\u2019t judge you after all (yet!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese company claims to have invented the first robots that can chat with people. Specifically designed for English language learners, the \u201cchatbots\u201d are accessed online. The online characters use high-speed speech recognition technology which allows them to interact in real time with students. Students can also participate in the chatbots\u2019 virtual world. Interestingly, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3,420,40,16],"tags":[1047,1050,123,1049,1048],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-english","category-japanese","category-language-acquisition","category-technology","tag-chatbots","tag-japanese-english-students","tag-language-learning","tag-language-robots","tag-robot-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}