Ordinate Corp., a subsidiary of Harcourt Assessment, is offering what it says is the world's only technology-enabled, spoken-language proficiency test. Ordinate says its test uses speech recognition technology to assess the listening and speaking skills of non-native English speakers.

The company's Spoken English Test (SET) is designed to analyze speech components from native and non-native speakers of English. The system locates and evaluates relevant segments, syllables, and phrases in speech. It then uses statistical modeling techniques to score the spoken performance.

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