Speech Works

Improve Your Accent in English

CD-ROM for Windows®

Learn to speak English with greater clarity and confidence. Speech Works develops personalized lesson plans to teach the Standard American accent.

Features

Developed by Professors Blackmer and Ferrier at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, Speech Works has many features that make it fun and effective:

• Easy to use. It is entirely mouse and microphone driven. No computing or keyboard skills are needed.
• Immediate feedback. Listen, imitate, and hear your imitations. You will hear the difference between your speech and the model.
• User Controlled. You listen to in imitate the model as many times as you wish. Work at your own pace. Spend as much or as little time on each lesson as you require.
• Motivating. You will be encouraged by your success.
• Lessons for Real Challenges. Lessons are designed by experienced professionals to treat challenges that interfere with communication.
• Personalized lesson plans for speakers of 30 native languages and 15 English dialects.
• Automatic File Saving. You can save recordings easily.
• Ideal Model Voices. You will hear both male and female voices in standard American English.

Personalized lesson plans

Speech Works offers personalized lessons for speakers of over 30 native languages (including Arabic, Cantonese, Czech, Croatian, Eqyptian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Taiwanese, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese) and English dialects (Eastern and Southern American, Australian, British, Canadian, Caribbean, East, West and South African, Malaysian, New Zealand, Filipino, Singaporean, South Asian). Click on ALL to have access to lessons for all learners. Click on your native language to limit the lessons to ones that are particularly useful for typical learners of that language background.

Speech Works Demo