For starters, it is the product of MeritTrac’s exclusive partnership with Carnegie Speech of the USA.

Carnegie Speech uses proprietary pinpointing technology licensed from Carnegie Mellon University and its Language Technologies Institute and has over 20 years of experience in language technologies research. Combine Carnegie Speech experience with MeritTrac’s wide knowledge and expertise in spoken english evaluation of having assessed over a million candidates for leading BPO organisations, you get an innovative solution that blends leading-edge technologies and Indian market context.

SpeechTrac is an automated assessment tool to grade the spoken English skills of non-native speakers of the language. It is programmed to evaluate English as spoken in India. Other solutions available in similar space are adapted versions of American and British English. It does not determine a native or advanced proficiency in spoken English abilities but enables identifying the trainable aspects for competent spoken English skills.

SpeechTrac is integrated to the web through an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system and evaluates a candidate on four independent parameters.. All these, with no human intervention whatsoever lead to highly objective, consistent and reliable evaluations.