The software SpeechTrainer provides a visualization of speech movements (midsagittal views of articulatory movements) for speech sounds, syllables, words, and short sentences.
SpeechTrainer can be used by speech therapists, speech and language therapists, teachers of foreign languages, etc. as a tool in for therapy as well as a tool for teaching.

SpeechTrainer-Workshop on request: program (in German)

SpeechArticulationTrainer is no longer availabe at AppStore or GooglePlay.
The app is available now as (free) Web App: Speech Articulation Trainer (version: 5.0 and higher)
* open: Speech Articulation Trainer Web App
* for information concerning the current Web App (version 5.0) features (but many features of version 4.0 are still the same) see: projects

The information on the rest of this page reflects features of version 2.0, version 3.0 and version 4.0.

Speech Articulation Trainer (formerly: App Store) Tutorials on YouTube (Version 4) [in English]:

• SpeechArticulationTrainer 4: The whole YouTube PlayList (more than 10 videos!)
• 1)SpeechArticulationTrainer 4.0 Introduction
• 2)SpeechArticulationTrainer: vowels
• 3) SpeechArticulationTrainer: consonants: voiced and voiceless plosives
• 4) SpeechArticulationTrainer: consonants: voiceless plosives: noise burst and VOT
• 5) SpeechArticulationTrainer: consonants: voiced and voiceless fricatives
• 6) SpeechArticulationTrainer: consonants: nasals
• 7) SpeechArticulationTrainer: consonants: nasals: temporal coordination of gestures (here: oral closure and velopharyngeal opening)
• 8) SpeechArticulationTrainer: consonants: lateral and further approximants
• 9) SpeechArticulationTrainer: the 2D articulatory model and its parameters
• 10) SpeechArticulationTrainer: approximants and lateral: focussing on speech sound duration
• 11) SpeechArticulationTrainer: the concept of speech gestures or speech movenemt units (SMUs) and of temproal coordination of gestures within a syllable (example: nasals; same video as 7)
• 12) SpeechArticulationTrainer: how to highlight articulators and places of articulation
• 13) SpeechArticulationTrainer: explaining the arrows: for phonation (purple), for noise generation (lightblue) and for free airflow without noise generation (orange)
• 14) SpeechArticulationTrainer: ...

SpeechTrainer Tutorials on YouTube (Version 3: offlive version) (Version 3 is still available!) [in German]:

• SpeechTrainer 3.0 Introduction
• SpeechTrainer 3.0 vowels (static)
• SpeechTrainer 3.0 consonants (static)
• SpeechTrainer 3.0 consonantc (coarticulation)
• SpeechTrainer 3.0 consonantc (dynamic)
• SpeechTrainer 3.0 vowels (dynamic)
• SpeechTrainer 3.0 words

SpeechTrainer Tutorials on YouTube (Version 2: offlice version) (Version 2 is still available)[in German]:

• SpeTraTutorial01: Lauteingabe via Textfenster
• SpeTraTutorial02: Lauteingabe via Lautsymbolfenster
• SpeTraTutorial03: Erstellung einer Wortliste
• SpeTraTutorial04: Vertrautmachen des Klienten mit dem Querschnittsbild
• SpeTraTutorial05: Vertonen und Synchronisieren einer bereits erstellten Wortliste

Features of SpeechTrainer:

• Input of sounds, syllables or words and generation of speech movements
• Display of speech movements in slow motion
• Simultaneous visual and acoustic output
• Recording of your own words and synchronisation with the articulatory model as part of SpeechTrainer
• Generation of your own word lists for quick use during therapy settions or teaching
• Visualization of the place of sound generation (phonation) or frication (aerodynamic model is included)