English Teaching Assistant VR delivers the first fully animated chatbot in VR that holds real conversations and fields questions with precision. It dances, recites poetry, plays games, tells jokes, makes eye contact, and lip-syncs responses. Players hold a push-to-talk button to speak, view subtitles for their input, and get replies in a fluid exchange. Controls cover keyboard movement with WASD, crouch, jump, and run, plus VR-specific teleportation and talk triggers for HTC, Oculus, and Microsoft Mixed Reality setups.
This Early Access education tool receives monthly updates like new locations and refinements, paving the way for directed English language courses. Non-native speakers benefit from enabling accent recognition in Windows settings. Developers invite feedback to shape its growth, starting with English responses before adding languages. It suits learners testing VR speech interactions and English practice partners.
English Teaching Assistant VR is the world's first fully animated chat-bot in VR. It can keep up with conversations and accurately answer questions. It can dance, recite poetry, play games with you, and even tell jokes. It is also able to make eye contact, and lip-sync.
This is a free tester software that has been developed to display and showcase our most recent successes with development. It is currently in development and will receive monthly updates and additions, such as new locations, new skins, and overall general changes. It will eventually be used to direct English language learning courses and programs.
CONTROLS:
In order to speak to the bot, please hold down the correct push-to-talk button while you say your sentence. You will be able to see subtitles with your sentence, then let go of the button.
Keyboard:
WASD - Move
CTRL - Push to talk
C - Crouch
Space - Jump
Shift - Run
HTC Controller:
Touchpad - Teleportation
Grip Buttons - Squeeze to talk
Oculus:
Thumbstick - Teleportation
Inner Triggers - click to talk
Microsoft Mixed Reality:
Thumbpad - Teleportation
Grip Buttons - Squeeze to talk
Before playing, please make sure you have speech services turned on. To turn speech services on, please follow the following instructions:
Windows settings --> Privacy --> Speech inking and typing --> turn on speech services
If you are not a native english speaker, we recommend turning on the following setting:
Windows settings --> Time and Language --> Speech --> turn on recognize non-native accents
We welcome and encourage constructive feedback as we progress and grow.
During Early Access, this bot is only able to respond to English. As we continue to update, we will be releasing further language integrations. Please be patient with us during this time.
