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Designed for use in schools or for individuals who would like to improve their spoken communication.
Clients using American Speechsounds Professional version include:
High schools
Colleges and universities
Adult education centers
Corporations
Trainers and teachers
Individual professionals
The Professional Version includes an authoring function that allows administrators to create totally customised exercises using professional terms, names, places, jargon, slang, and dialogues — anything you need.
This comprehensive software covers all the challenging areas of spoken English: consonant sounds, vowel sounds, stress, intonation, linking, word endings, casual speech, and more!
Video clips, diagrams, instructions, explanations of common problems, and spelling examples are included for every sound.
Scored listening exercises recommend when to go on to recording. Record sounds, words, phrases, and sentences.
Practice independently, progress at your own pace.
This version has the option to display International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols.
Features
8000+ American English words and expressions
Guide for 38 language backgrounds.
Teaches consonant and vowel sounds with video and audio instructions
Presents Endings, Intonation, Linking, Shortcuts, Stress exercises
Includes ABC (Alphabet Letters), Days, Months, See the Sea (Homonyms), Shh! (Silent Consonants)
Contains a Locator to help you find every word
Features authoring — create totally customized exercises using professional terms, names, places, slang, jargon, dialogues
Offers the option to display International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols
Consonant and Vowel exercises for every difficult sound
Endings Exercises
A Great Grade (Voicing)
Almost Perfect (Consonant Cluster Endings)
Bell & Whistles (Plurals)
Tried it, Liked it (Past Tense)
Linking Exercises
Could-You? (Sound Changes)
Does-it? (Consonant + Vowel)
Feel-it? (L + Vowel)
Get-it? (T+ Vowel)
Guess-so (Same Sounds)
Hear-it? (R + Vowel)
See-it? (Vowel + Vowel)
Intonation Exercises
It is. (Statement)
Is it? (Yes-No Questions)
Who? (“wh-” Questions)
do I? (Tag Endings)
1, 2, and 3 (Series)
But . . . (Pauses)
Shortcuts Exercises
ASAP (Abbreviations)
It’s Good! (Contractions)
More ‘r Less (Relaxed Speech)
Stress Exercises
Drive IN (Verb Phrases)
HOTdog (Compound Nouns)
-ic, -ity, -tion (Suffixes)
PreSENT a PREsent (Noun-Verb Forms)
SOMEone (Compound Nouns)
Put it HERE (Word Stress)
Pricing:
1 program $149.95
2-9 programs $109.95 each
10-16 programs $99.95 each
17-50 (site license) $1,900.00 total
51st + programs $35 each
Workbook $35 each*
*A free digital workbook and rights to reproduce it for use in the classroom come with the purchase of multiple programs.
Hardware Requirements:
Windows 7, 8, 10 (32- and 64-bit). Or Mac with Windows under Parallels or equivalent software. Microphone and headphones/speaker
