programmable language learning software ?

[Daithi Carr]

Does anyone know of any programmable language learning software or voice recognition software which can test your pronunciation against a recording.

For example, I have a lot of cork Irish audio, which I am using for language learning. I would like to see how my pronunciation compares to it.

Thanks.

[Seáinín]

Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) is freeware audio editing software with spectrum graphs that visualize sounds in a way that gives you one way to compare two different recordings. You can import a sound file, play it and see its graph, then record yourself and place the two graphs next to one another to get a pretty detailed picture of where they differ. Takes a little getting used to doing the interpretations, but might be useful for what you’re trying to accomplish.

[Daithi Carr]

Thanks , doing that now, its not as seamless as something like Anki , but is fit for the purpose i intend.

now all i need is some sort of diagram of tongue movements for some of the less familiar sounds so i can try match the speaker a bit better 🙂

[Daithi Carr]

That Audacity software is great, with minimum effort and know how i was able to clean up one of the Doegen recordings (http://www.dho.ie/doegen/ ), which was barely audible to only a minor hissing and much clearer sound quality. Youd imagine they would have done something similar or better before they put them online, would they not have access to better sound software and people experienced in such matters?

if anyone is curious how to do this http://www.geeks.com/techtips/2006/techtips-10dec06.htm

[Seáinín]

Comhghairdeas!

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