Busuu Launches AI-powered ‘Speaking Practice’ to Boost Real-World Conversation Skills
27 Juni 2024 - 3:05PM
Business Wire
Busuu, a Chegg service and language learning provider with over
120 million registered users1, today announced its new AI-powered
feature, ‘speaking practice,’ to help learners practice speaking
another language in their own time, in a safe, judgment-free space.
The new feature combines AI-powered feedback and personalized
pronunciation practice with videos of native speakers that help
learners build confidence with their listening and pronunciation
skills. According to a survey commissioned by Busuu and
EY-Parthenon, 55% of learners are focused on improving their
conversational skills and 66% of learners prefer ‘listen &
repeat’ exercises.
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‘Speaking practice’ provides an immersive experience into a
language's sounds, accents, and mouth movements, with videos
featuring native speakers. It offers personalized feedback powered
by AI, allowing learners to receive instant, actionable insights on
how to improve their speaking skills. Using an AI speech
recognition tool, ‘speaking practice’ processes the learners’
speech and then grades the learners’ sentences. It then highlights
the words that need improvement and delivers personalized feedback
based on which words they got wrong. Learners can practice speaking
another language in their own time, in a safe, judgment-free space
which helps relieve anxiety throughout their language learning
journey.
“’Speaking practice’ is the perfect stepping stone to help
language learners feel confident in using another language in real
life,” said Gino Micacchi, Vice President of Product at Busuu. “The
combination of immersive videos using native speakers alongside
personalized real-time AI-powered feedback provides learners with a
life-like language learning experience.”
‘Speaking practice' is available for anyone learning English,
Spanish, French, and German across all Busuu's 16 interface
languages.2 English and Spanish learners can experience the full
version of AI-powered personalized feedback, which includes
actionable insights on how to improve their speaking skills. Any
learner can try two speaking lessons for free, while Premium
subscribers will have unlimited access to the feature.
Busuu’s courses are designed by experts and cover the four key
areas needed to learn a language - listening, reading, writing and
speaking. Furthermore, 'speaking practice’ is built into Busuu’s
courses, which means users get a scaffolded learning experience,
learning grammar, words and phrases before they reach speaking
exercises.
Language learners can try ‘speaking practice’ now by downloading
Busuu on Apple’s App Store. ‘Speaking practice’ will be available
on Android later this year. A web version is expected to be
available in the future.
An English version of the ‘speaking practice’ overview
video is accessible online. For more information about Busuu's
latest advancements, please visit www.busuu.com.
About Busuu
Busuu is a powerful language-learning platform that builds
real-world communication confidence by combining immersive lessons
with real native-speaker content, supported by a global online
community. Its B2B version further enhances the experience with
Live Lessons delivered in 1:1 or small online group settings. With
offices in London and Madrid, Busuu has multilingual staff from
around the world working together to empower people through
languages. In January 2022, Busuu was acquired by Chegg for € 385
million.
About Chegg
Millions of people all around the world learn with Chegg. No
matter the goal, level, or style, Chegg helps learners learn with
confidence. We provide 24/7 on-demand support, and our personalized
learning assistant leverages the power of artificial intelligence
(“AI”), more than a hundred million pieces of proprietary content,
as well as a decade of learning insights. Our platform also helps
learners build essential life and job skills to accelerate their
path from learning to earning, and we work with companies to offer
learning programs for their employees. Chegg is a publicly held
company and trades on the NYSE under the symbol CHGG. For more
information, visit www.chegg.com.
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