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Title | Publisher | Description | Cost | Comments | Reviews
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| 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 and Step 2 | Cognitive
Concepts | Adaptive game format; record-keeping | $60 2
users total; $300 12 users for ea level | Two levels, one for
younger and one for older children. 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. |