LINGUODIDACTIC POTENTIAL OF VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS AND CHAT-BOTS AS SPEECH RECOGNITION TOOLS BASED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

In the article a problem of implementation of artificial intelligence speech recognition technologies in foreign language teaching is described. Principles of the speech recognition process are analyzed within the history of the development of chat-bots and virtual assistants. The object of the study is the didactic potential of chat-bots as an umbrella technology of this type. Moreover, the paper considers the so-called complex chat-bots, which use not a pre-programmed set of replica responses, but neural networks capable of machine learning to improve communication. Didactic functions are illustrated by the examples of educational chat-bots in Telegram. The material presented in the paper leads to the conclusion that taking into consideration several advantages and disadvantages educators successfully use artificial intelligence speech recognition tools as communicative, interactive and individualized educational technologies.