Speech Analysis

For concentrated practice on your pronunciation, go to the Speech Analysis screen. Here, you can record and play back the sound of your own voice. Compare your speech with the native speaker, and then record again. You'll hear how quickly you improve!

To access the Speech Analysis screen:

On any Speech screen, roll over the Speech Analysis icon and it turns green.

On any screen other than Speech, click the Answers icon and the Speech Analysis icon turns green as shown above.

Click the Speech Analysis icon and the Speech Analysis dialog box appears.

At the prompt, speak into the microphone. A graph of your speech appears below the native graph for comparison.

Click the speaker icon next to your recording to hear your own voice.

Click Record to make another recording.

The results of your recordings are shown in the recording history below the graphs. Click any of the speaker icons in the history to redisplay the graph and replay the recording of your voice.

Speed Controls

The native speech plays at the slowest speed so that you can hear the pronunciation more clearly. Click the speed setting to change the speed:

Slowest

Slow

Normal

Speech Graphs

The speech graphs give you a visual comparison of your speech with the native speaker.

Click a different tab to choose another speech graph to display.

Emphasis and Pitch displays the combination of the strength of your speech and the high to low pitch change.

Emphasis displays the strength of your speech to compare the relative stress on syllables.

Pitch displays the high to low pitch change of your speech.

Spectrogram displays the strength of frequencies over time, also known as a Voiceprint.