Robot Tutors - GoogleRobot Processes Speech and Grammar

Today, the editor of Language Magazine released a new robot tutor that uses Googlescriber to encode voice into text, process the grammar, and provide feedback.  The system marks one of the boldest moves towards robot tutors.

Here’s the Press Release:
GoogleRobot™ is new Human-Robotic Communication invention which is integrated with Googlescriber™ or a “Write-by-Phone” system: a breakthrough. The phone learning system is capable of processing student essays and other interactions automatically by telephone and returning instant holistic and analytical scores.

GoogleRobot™ bridges the gap between machine learning, intelligent tutoring, and multi-agent problem solving. Professor Donahue notes, “Knowledge is the interplay between perception and action, both of which cannot be inventoried in stone, but must be adaptively coordinated or modified during the communication act in order for said knowledge to be transferred parsimoniously, heuristically, and effectively.”

GoogleRobot™ provides an apparatus and software for processing text, speech, video and providing robust scoring, analysis, and feedback. Furthermore, GoogleRobot™ allows for cognitive apprenticeship interactions between situated automata and human teachers providing corrective feedback via a rule-based system featuring modeling, scaffolding, fading, and sequencing modes to solve real-world problems related to language processing. Thus, Knowledge Acquisition is a two way street of cognitive apprenticeship between human and machine: or perception-action coupling.

The access site for GoogleRobot™ is http://www.googlescriber.com and the Demo number is (877) 234-3851.
If you do nothing else, call the number and listen to the female HAL