Speech training technology to help you speak English more clearly.

You need to speak English. Although speech training in the past has helped with grammar and words, you still can't make yourself understood to native speakers. It is embarrassing. But going to a class for this is expensive and means standing up in front of everyone else with your mistakes. The ideal is to have a personal tutor with unlimited time to spend helping just you. You want to know where you made mistakes and exactly how to correct them. And you want to be able to train as long as you want until you feel comfortable with your new accent and until you feel that people will listen to what you are saying instead of listening to your accent! NativeAccent has the answer for you! At lower cost and more available than a human tutor, this software lets you train in the privacy of your own home or office. It shows you what sounds and rhythm to work on and points out what you can do to improve. You can use it over and over until you are confident with your speech. The basic system provides over 50 hours of training material for all of the sounds of English and its rhythm. Lessons are adapted to problems linked to your native language and the tutor adapts each individual lesson according to your personal progress. This is your complete answer to speaking understandably in English!

Carnegie Speech's NativeAccent uses technology under exclusive worldwide license from Carnegie Mellon University.Learning a foreign language is not only a question of getting the words and syntax right. You can’t be understood until you can pronounce it well! Our product, NativeAccent, is designed to let you speak, then give you feedback as to how you did - what to correct and how to correct it. Using state-of-the-art speech recognition technology, SPHINX from Carnegie Mellon University, this interactive software allows you to speak, to get corrections, to listen to yourself and a native speaker and try again, over and over, as many times as you want. NativeAccent is patient and can be customized to do what you want. Speech training in the privacy of your PC and then speak to others when you’re ready!

We have conducted a scientific study to determine the effectiveness of learning using NativeAccent. Please download our article presented at the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 2000 for more details.

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