This is a Web-based translation game aimed at providing learners of Mandarin Chinese with an easily-accessible and fun environment for practicing speaking the new language. The prototype centers on the task of translating flight domain sentences from English into Chinese. English stimuli are used to elicit Chinese utterances from a user. The system tracks a user's performance and rewards them with advancement in difficulty level.

The system is no longer actively maintained. Click here to view a video demonstration: wmv file (size 13M)

If you want to learn more about the system, you can read these papers:

• Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
  "A Spoken Translation Game for Second Language Learning",
  to appear in Proc. of AIED, 2007.


• Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
  "Automatic Assessment of Student Translations for Foreign Language Tutoring",
  to appear in Proc. of NAACL-HLT, 2007.


• Chao Wang and Stephanie Seneff
  "High-quality Speech Translation in the Flight Domain",
  in Proc. of ICSLP, 2006.


• Stephanie Seneff, Chao Wang, and John Lee
  "Combining Linguistic and Statistical Methods for Bi-directional English Chinese Translation in the Flight Domain",
  in Proc. of AMTA, 2006.