| Title |
Publisher |
Description |
Cost |
Comments |
Reviews |
| Accent Lab |
Accent Technologies |
Exercises on sounds, formant maps, waveforms |
$40 |
Visuals are hard to interpret, but the price is very
reasonable. Authorable. Windows only. |
Beare |
| American SpeechSounds |
SpeechCom |
Professional version has authoring |
$70 personal, $300 professional |
Windows only. |
Beare |
| Better Accent Tutor |
Better Accent |
Exercises |
$125 |
Windows and Macintosh. |
|
| Connected Speech |
Protea Textware |
Exercises with video; focus on suprasegmentals |
$120 |
North American form; Australian and British now available.
Windows only. |
Darhower |
| Course in English Pronunciation |
Sky Software House |
Exercises with video |
$45 |
British English. Sounds, words and sentence-level activities
in an organized curriculum. Windows only. |
| Clear Speech Works |
Now sold by DynEd |
Exercises, specialized and vocational vocabulary work |
$80 |
Exercises can be grouped by L1. Windows and Macintosh. |
Beare |
Earobics Step 1; Earobics Step 2; Earobics for Adolescents
and Adults
|
Cognitive Concepts |
Adaptive game format; record-keeping |
$60 2 users total (home); $300 12 users for ea level |
Three levels, one for younger and one for older children, and
one for teens and adults. Designed for native speakers in speech
clinics. Windows and Macintosh. |
|
| Ellis Master Pronunciation |
ELLIS |
Exercises, including tongue twisters, speech acts; native
language help |
$500 |
Explanations in over 20 languages. Windows only. |
|
| English Easy: Vowels and Consonants |
Greenwood Multimedia |
Canadian English pronunciation in a cultural context |
$40 each (?) |
Explanations in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese. Windows
only. |
|
| Hear Say for All |
Communication Disorders
Technology |
Exercises, graphic representations |
$75 |
Also available: special versions for Chinese, Japanese, and
Spanish speakers. Windows only. |
|
| Pro-Nunciation Sound Lab and Mouth Exercises |
Pro-Nunciation |
Exercises on individual sounds and intonation patterns; mouth
diagrams |
$55 |
British or American English. Right-click on any word to hear
it and see mouth diagrams. Windows only. |
|
| Pronunciation in American English |
AmEnglish.com |
Stress, intonation,
and rhythm emphasized in exercises |
$30 site |
Some record management. TOEIC-related content. Windows only. |
|
| Pronunciation Power 1 and 2 |
English Computerized
Learning |
Focus on phonemes; some work on intonation. Mouth views in
cutaway and video format; waveforms |
$145 (PP1); $85 (PP2); $195 both |
American English. Windows and Macintosh. |
Beare, Kellermann |
| Sky Compilation Disk 1: Pronunciation |
Sky Software House |
A set of pronunciation programs. |
$45 |
British English. Minimal pairs, stress and rhythm, phonemic
alphabet. Extensive on-screen explanation makes this best for
high-intermediate and advanced learners. Windows only. |
|
| Sounds English, Alphabet Academy, Fit or Fat |
Geoff
Taylor |
Exercises and games to practice phonemes and IPA; recorded
and synthesized speech |
freeware |
Black and white graphics. Macintosh only. |
|
| Speak Out |
PerLingua Software |
Role-playing game using speech recognition |
$10 shareware |
Language in context - students focus on accuracy to play the
game. Macintosh only. |
|
| Speech Prism |
Language
Vision |
A variety of visual representations for work on sounds.
Relatively easy to compare visually to model. |
$130 |
Designed for speech therapy. No sounds included.
Record-keeping. 30 day trial from website. Windows only. |
|
| Vowel Target |
Language
Vision |
Game to improve vowel sounds - try to approximate the model
to hit the target |
$60 |
Not easy to match the sound, even for a native speaker.
Record-keeping. 30 day trial from website. Windows only. |
|
| Video Karaoke |
PerLingua |
Students add their voices to video clips |
$20 |
Several different settings to choose from, all
conversational. Macintosh only. |
|
| VideoVoice |
Micro Video |
Speech therapy program; many visualizing activities |
$2500 |
Comes with digitizing equipment; no sounds included. Windows
and Macintosh. |
|
| VisiPitch; Video Phonetics |
Kay Elemetrics |
Pitch visualizations; video and sound samples useful for
pitch and waveform analysis |
|
Requires its own hardware. Software only-version available as
Sona-Speech II. |