The software SpeechTrainer provides a visualization of speech mmovements (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)
Speech Articulation Trainer (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) [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) [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)