Date: January 29, 2015 at 9:33:42 AM CST

Subject: Reminder: IALLT Webinar "A New Approach to Vowel Vocalization" FRIDAY

From: Deanne <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>

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A quick reminder of Friday’s IALLT Webinar.  If you haven’t yet had a chance to register for this, go to http://www.iallt.org/conferences/webinars.



Title:               A New Approach to Vowel Visualization

Presenter:      Harold H. Hendricks,

                       Supervisor of the Humanities Learning Resource Center at

Brigham Young University

                      IALLT President



Date:         Friday, January 30, 2015

Start Time:     11:00am PT / 12:00pm MT / 1:00pm CT / 2:00pm ET/ 7:00pm GMT & UTC



Webinar Duration - 1 hour





Description: Computer pronunciation feedback has traditionally relied on waveform modeling, where the student is shown both a waveform produced by a native speaker and the waveform recorded by the student. This session will demonstrate an automated vowel evaluation program that first positions in real-time the student's live vowel production on a simplified vowel chart. After the student has practiced the pure vowel, the student then records vowel production within words, again positioned on the vowel chart along with visual feedback for dipthongization, tongue position, lip position, and vowel duration. Prescriptive textual feedback is given for improvement. The test case for this program has been first-year German, but the program is not language specific.









Reminder:  IALLT Webinars can only be registered for by a current IALLT member.







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