Vowel Target
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Vowel Target is a highly interactive game for learning American English
vowel articulation (including the semi-vowel "er" as in bird).
Specially designed to help
language-impaired children. |
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This game allows the player to adjust his or her tongue position in real time based on the graphical feedback provided by the game. Two kinds of graphical feedback are provided; the position of arrows that appear as the student speaks, and an animated head cross section that shows an estimate of tongue position. The game uses an engaging archery theme to hold the student's interest. Scoring and sounds provide incentives for performance. This game is intended to be used for home practice for vowel articulation disorders, but is not intended to act as a substitute for treatment by a speech-language professional. Vowel Target has also been successfully used for foreign accent reduction, by placing the vowel sounds in the context of American English words during the game. Vowel Target runs on Windows 95, 98, or NT computers with a Pentium-class processor, 16Mb of memory, 5Mb of free disk space, a sound card, and high quality microphone. Key Benefits- Two kinds of real-time biofeedback-like graphical training
- The vowel sounds can also be practiced in the context of words.
- Shareware version can be downloaded and used for 30 days.
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Computer Requirements
Short Answer:
Most Windows PC computers
made since 2000 will run our programs. If you're not sure, try
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Detailed Answer (for computer geeks)
- Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Windows 7.
If your computer
has a Start button in the lower left comer, and it was new in 2000 or
later then you've got one of those versions. There are
several options for your Macintosh.
If you have an older computer with Windows 95 or Windows 98 (which are 9 to
14 years old) you can still run all the programs except for Sights'n Sounds
2.
- Sound Card
If your PC ever plays music
(even just at start up) it has a sound card. If it has external
speakers, it probably has a sound card. Speakers plug into the sound
card.
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CD-ROM drive
- Microphone
Required only for programs that record speech (Sights'n Sounds, Numbers'n
Sounds, and SpeechPrism) These are inexpensive.
You can buy them for $9.50
- Screen that can display 256 or more colors.
- 160 MB Hard Drive space (if you're installing all
22 programs).
Most programs need about 10-20MB of storage. Typical low end PCs have 60,000
MB of storage so this usually isn't a problem.
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