VietNamNet Bridge – This is the first-ever “made in Vietnam” English-teaching machine.
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The machine, “IOPT- Home Teacher” is small and light, with a weight equal to four ink pens. This small machine contains a wealth of information that can help English students practice English everywhere with the support of native speakers.
According to Thang, the product integrates code recognition technology, voice treatment and voice recognition. Via a small camera at the tip of the pen, textbook codes will be recognized and then spoken out loud in English or translated into Vietnamese, as required by learners. English students can also pronounce English words for the machine to grade. Standard pronunciation and optimum software allows the machine to grade the speaker accurately, helping people learn English in the most effective way.
The English teaching pen has been used on a trial basis at
Though the most important goal of the pen is to help people learn foreign languages more easily, the young doctor/inventor has ambitions of applying the technology to teach other subjects like literature, history and geography to make them more interesting and attractive.
Thang said that has cooperated with the Education Publishing House to publish a series of English textbooks for 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grade students which can be with the pen.
Thang spent three years in
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