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.