LENA system

[Melanie Soderstrom]

There was also a group from (I believe) France who gave an
interesting/provocative talk at their last users' meeting describing
some of the ways that it breaks down. The issues they point out are
not specific to French, though. You can find the audio of the talk on
their website in their users meeting archives.

In general it seems to work very well across languages (so far), but
it's always best to be cautious when using it in new ways. It has
definitely been used with French before though.

As for their technical support fees, they work on the fee-for-service
model and are not open-source or freeware. They are a not-for-profit,
and do have real ongoing operating costs, so it's not just a
money-grab, but it's not a model that academics like very much. As
long as you budget that tech support fee into your operating costs and
thinking in the costs of the project, it's not a big deal compared
with the initial set-up cost. But they could probably do a better job
of making sure people are aware of that up front.


Melanie Soderstrom
Associate Head (Graduate)
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Manitoba


On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:07 AM, Marilyn Vihman
<marilyn.vihman at york.ac.uk> wrote:
> I just want to add a word of caution - we've been using LENA, and it's
> great for recording with no observers present. However, you will be forever
> their "prisoner" - you have to pay around £800 a year for service (which
> always dates back to January of that year, regardless of when you actually
> started to pay), or they won't talk to you nor help you when you've got
> problems, when versions are updated or when the computer on which you have
> the software dies, and the software for which you paid good money is no
> longer supported. If you skip a year or two and then renew your service
> payment, you pay a heavy "fine" for each year for which you didn't pay. We,
> stupidly, gave free talks and publicity for them in a conference they
> organised, but their service is never free.
>
> Just something to keep in mind!
>
> Tamar Keren-Portnoy
>
>
> On 11 Oct 2014, at 22:14, Aliyah MORGENSTERN <aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Jean-Pierre,
> Marie-Thérèse Lenormand has used it very successfully. I was going to ask
> her to help us record children's monologues but haven't had the time to
> start. But as far as I know, she is the expert in our community.
> lenormand at rdebre.inserm.fr
> Best,
> Aliyah
>
> Le 12 oct. 2014 à 04:18, Jean-Pierre Chevrot a écrit :
>
> Dear Colleagues,
> We are considering using the LENA system to record and conduct pre-analysis
> of the speech of young French-speaking children.
> We were wondering whether this system works with languages other than
> English, and in particular with French?
> Do any of you have experience of this?
> Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to provide.
> Jean-Pierre
>
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