With the exponential growth of information and communication technology, many digital tools that can provide immediate feedback on pronunciation have been developed in recent years. Among them, one recent noteworthy tool is Clips, which is capable of creating fun videos with automatically generated captions. This technology review provides an overview of its features and discusses how they can benefit foreign language teaching and learning.
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