A Mandarin edutainment system integrated virtual learning environments

Speech Communication

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-83

  Ming, Yue ^a   Ruan, Qiuqi ^a   Gao, Guodong ^b  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Beijing Traffic Control Technology CO Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

3D face recognition; Edutainment; Mandarin learning; Pronunciation evaluation; Virtual learning environment (VLE); Virtual Reality (VR)

Indexed keywords

3D FACE RECOGNITION; EDUTAINMENT; MANDARIN LEARNING; PRONUNCIATION EVALUATION; VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; E-LEARNING; FACE RECOGNITION; SPEECH PROCESSING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870301299     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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