Thursday, September 30, 2021

Amazon Polly's synthesized voice to an article on improving listening skills

 

My department's webpage added a new bilingual article on improving listening skills for undergraduate students.


How to Improve Your Listening Skills

https://www.i-arrc.k.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/tips/contents#frame-324


英語リスニング力を向上させるために

https://www.i-arrc.k.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/tips/contents_jp#frame-322


I added AI's synthesized readout of the article, using Amazon Polly for the first time. 


Audio of "Improving Your Listening Skills" 

(The playback speed is adjustable on Chrome or Edge)

https://www.i-arrc.k.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/tips/contents#frame-472


The voice quality is quite reasonable. I hope this technology will stimulate people's creativity to learn English (or any other language).