Improve your articulation and pronunciation skills
Pronunciation Coach is award winning pronunciation software that:
- Shows you how to produce all the sounds in the English language.
- Shows you how to pronounce any word or sentence in the English language.
- Records your speech and lets you compare it to an example.
- Uses state-of-the-art speech recognition to provide feedback on your pronunciation.
How does Pronunciation Coach work?
Unlike other programs that use a limited number of pre-recorded examples, Pronunciation Coach shows you how to produce all the sounds in the English language or pronounce any word or sentence. It does this by converting written text into speech using a technique called Text to Speech (TTS).
What are Pronunciation Models?
When you type a word into Pronunciation Coach, or select a word from the built-in dictionary, it gets converted into a Pronunciation Model. Each model contains:
- Audio: for listening to the pronunciation.
- Video: for viewing the tongue, vocal folds, soft palate and lips.
- Speech patterns: for viewing pitch, loudness and timing.
- Phonetic symbols: to identify the individual sounds.
How do I practise my pronunciation?
Once you've studied the Pronunciation Model, you're ready to record your speech. Each recording contains:
- Audio: for listening to your pronunciation.
- Video: for viewing your lips, teeth, jaw and tongue.
- Speech patterns: for viewing your pitch, loudness and timing.
- Speech recognition result: for monitoring your progress.
Recordings let you compare your pronunciation with the model and help to highlight any differences. You can make as many recordings as you like, with a single click of a button.
How do I get feedback on my pronunciation?
Pronunciation Coach uses state-of-the-art speech recognition to provide feedback on your pronunciation.
The speech recognizer tells you if it recognized your pronunciation correctly. It also provides a score, on a scale from 1 to 10, of how well you pronounced the word or sentence.
