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Pronounce Live [Review]

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Abstract

Pronounce Live is a mobile application that is designed to facilitate L2 pronunciation practice. The app supports 5 languages: English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. To use this app, the user can input text as a practice item or access a pre-existing text practice item, which can be a single word or a phrase of up to 200 characters. The app generates an audio clip of text-to-speech (TTS) voice (the user can select a voice from a list of options) reading the practice item. The user then records themselves uttering the practice item. Finally, the app provides textual and graphic reports that include an automated speech recognition (ASR) transcript of their voice recording, a graphic that indicates the percentage accuracy of the user’s utterance, and a report comparing their performance across multiple attempts. The interface is depicted in Figure 1.

How to Cite:

Terrill, K., (2018) “Pronounce Live [Review]”, Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Proceedings 10(1).