Devising a Supplementary Solution to Overcome Interview Anxiety

Foreign language learners and speakers have to be able to face challenges in a self-confident way during examinations and interviews in order to be successful. Anxiety plays a vital part when it comes to the quality of responses to questions from the interviewer and during school years teachers should provide as many occasions for preparation as possible. One reasonable way, offered in this article, is to use computer technology to simulate interviews and turn-taking with the help of TTS (Text-To-Speech) voices embedded in an interactive, animated interface. As TTS voices can read out any written material, the supplementary possibilities for practising is literally endless. It can be very difficult to treat anxiety with positive results as it is very exasperating when people cannot recall what they have learnt during school years because of nervousness. Every single generation can share this inconvenient obstacle. Practising with TTS technology can help experience how exams and interviews will proceed in life under real conditions. Accordingly the users are be able to familiarise themselves with unknown and unpleasant impulses, and the gathered experience will help them during real challenges. Keywords: Language anxiety; Text-to-speech; Interview simulation