- From: James Salsman <james@bovik.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:02:54 -0500 (EST)
- To: edu-standards-friends@bovik.org
ANNOUNCING InSTIL-ICARE ---------- ------------ The Integrating Speech Technology in (Language) Learning SIG -- http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/instil is pleased to announce the InSTIL Committee to Advance Rhetorical Education (ICARE.) The new Committee will focus on advocacy and fund-raising in support of advancing the state of the art in computer-assisted speech education, the mission of the SIG. We have volunteers from around the world, but we need more, and are starting now. Over the next month, and beyond, we have agreed to write open letters to the officers of high-profile speech technology companies encouraging them to take the best steps to advance the state of the art, and to raise funds to pay for useful speech corpora for distribution to the SIG membership. As the founding member of the Committee within the SIG, I invite you personally join the SIG so that you may share in the benefits, and volunteer and/or pledge if possible to help the ICARE committee in its work. You may join the SIG through any of these three groups: CALICO -- the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium: http://calico.org EUROCALL -- the European Computer-Aided Language Learning association: http://www.hull.ac.uk/cti/eurocall.htm ISCA -- the International Speech Communication Association: http://www.isca-speech.org Sincerely, James -- James Salsman <james@bovik.org> -- http://www.bovik.org Please help InSTIL advance spoken education -- http://dbs.tay.ac.uk/instil
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