Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform used to review students' knowledge, for formative
assessment or as a break from traditional classroom activities. It is among the most popular …

Abstract The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) wave and advancement in technical
infrastructures and in learning technology opens for new ways of teaching in the classroom …

Crowdsourcing is an emerging collaborative approach that can be used for the acquisition of
annotated corpora and a wide range of other linguistic resources. Although the use of this …

We investigate whether Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) service can be used as a
reliable method for transcription of spoken language data. Utterances with varying speaker …

The use of game-based learning in the classroom has become more common in recent
years. Many game-based learning tools and platforms are based on a quiz concept where …

Crowdsourcing has become an increasingly popular means of flexibly deploying large
amounts of human computational power. The present chapter investigates the role of …

Speech transcription is an expensive service with high turnaround time for audio files
containing languages spoken in developing countries and regional accents of well …

The collection and transcription of speech data is typically an expensive and time-
consuming task. Voice over IP and cloud computing are poised to eliminate this impediment …

This paper examines the literature on the use of crowdsourcing for speech-related tasks:
speech acquisition, transcription and annotation as well as the assessment of speech …

State-of-the-art large vocabulary continuous speech recognition systems use mostly phone
based acoustic models (AMs) and word based lexical and language models. However …