EnglishCentral and Tosho Group Establish an EdTech Joint Venture in Japan Tokyo, Japan – October 26, 2021. EnglishCentral today announced a joint venture to develop and distribute English language learning solutions for the school market in Japan with Tosho Printing Co., Ltd (”Tosho”). Tosho is a subsidiary of the Toppan Group, one of Japan’s leading…

EnglishCentral Launches New Pronunciation Center New Machine Learning Techniques Double Precision for Learners September 9, 2021. Boston, MA. EnglishCentral today released its new Pronunciation Center, the industry’s first online English pronunciation tool trained on over 1 billion learner events. For the last 10 years, our learners have provided us over 1 billion learning events on…

AI Expert Steven Chambers to Join EnglishCentral Advisory Board May 15, 2020. Boston, MA. EnglishCentral, the most widely adopted AI-powered English language conversation platform in the world, today announced that Steven Chambers will join as a strategic advisor. Mr. Chambers is a recognized leader in artificial intelligence and speech recognition, having served as President at…

Meet New EnglishCentral The latest version of EnglishCentral is now live! We are proud to announce the latest version of EnglishCentral is now available in 10 languages. It’s a ground-up rewrite of our platform using the latest progressive web technology, built by our teams in Boston, Ankara, Tokyo, Seoul, and Manila. And, we are just…

EnglishCentral IntelliSpeech℠ Technology EnglishCentral’s “special sauce” has always been our internally developed IntelliSpeech℠ assessment technology. Teachers appreciate how IntelliSpeech℠ motivates students to speak outside of the classroom. Students appreciate the instant feedback and the game dynamic of trying to improve their speaking scores. EnglishCentral’s IntelliSpeech℠ is trained on hundreds of millions of lines of speech…