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| littlebigman Newbie Belgium Joined 5099 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 1 of 4 18 May 2010 at 5:27pm | IP Logged |
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Hello
I was wondering if there good softwares for Windows that record the user's voice and displays it on the screen, and then shows the same sentence as said by a native speaker, so that students can improve their pronunciation? Also, I read a long time ago about the work done by Tomatis regarding learning a foreign language, namely that we should concentrate on trying to understand/repeat frequencies that don't exist in one's mother tongue. I have no idea if his work is scientifically sound. Does someone know more about this? www.tomatis.lu/language-coaching/?page=method&language=en Thank you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5355 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 2 of 4 19 May 2010 at 1:41pm | IP Logged |
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I once spent quite a while looking for info on tomatis. There is very little information of any sort, appart from the publicity mumbo-jumbo, which comes across as quackery. I assume this to mean they are Charlatans. And expensive.
Their theory about the different frequency ranges does have a whiff of plausibility, but in reality, it's difficult to identify any strange foreign phonemes, irrespective of their frequency range. And I assume you could achieve the same effect with audacity by playing with the graphic equaliser. "Tell me more" has a fairly reasonable go at comparing pronounciation with the original, but I don't think it's really tells you anyting more than recording your own voice and playng it back. edit: oh, audacity does do frequency spectrum analysis, you could compare your recording with the original, although I don't really think it would really be a practical help. Edited by schoenewaelder on 19 May 2010 at 1:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| littlebigman Newbie Belgium Joined 5099 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 3 of 4 24 May 2010 at 3:41pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the tip. I guess speech analysis isn't very useful to learning a foreign
language, then. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| grunts67 Diglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5097 days ago 215 posts - 252 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 4 of 4 24 May 2010 at 6:19pm | IP Logged |
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There's a speechs analysis that come with Rosseta Stone. However, I would not recommand it for differents reasons.
First, it only work on words in the program. So it really basic. Second, you really need to compare your speech and intonation graph to the one of the native. If you just use the simple system, is really not that great. It only check a portion of the syllable. Third, Rosseta Stone is really expensive to only use that feature. The best way I can think of is till have a tutor or a friends helping you with your pronociation. There's is some free site that help you find people who are learning new languages and you can talk with them on the internet (for exemple Skype). As far as I am concern, I would keep my money for books and methods instead of software. Don't forget, people had learn language before the apparaition of computers, you should be able to do the same thing. Hope it help. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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