In one of my posts called Pronunciation apps (2017) I described a few tools whose affordances I had explored in my original research related to Mobile-Assisted Pronunciation Training in 2016 and 2017.
The table below includes web tools and mobile apps that I have explored over the past few years and applied in my teaching pronunciation – both receptive and productive skills. It is divided into subcategories as regards content and/or task type. All of the following can be used in raising awareness about diversity and intelligibility as well as teaching selected segmental features (sounds) and suprasegmental features (prosody) across the varieties of English. They can be also suitable for learners self-studying. Feel free to check them out at your convenience.
Please also note the compilation of links below is not exhaustive and is going to be updated as soon as I find a little bit more time. 😉
| Spoken corpora | Speech Accent Archive | Youglish | Forvo | IDEA Corpus | BNC |
| Visual animations | Dynamic Dialects | Pronunciation Club | |||
| Listen & repeat/sing activities | LyricsTraining | Say It Right 5.0 | |||
| Listening decoding | TubeQuizard | English Accent Coach | Speech in Action Syllabus for Listening | ||
| Text, video & audio-based activities | ELLLO | Spoken London English | TED Talks | ||
| Speech synthesis (TTS) & Speech recognition (ASR) | Google Translate | Google Drive Voice Typing | Golden Speaker Builder | Presentation Coach | Microsoft Reading Progress |
| Mobile apps | ELSA – Speech Analyzer AI | English Dialects | |||
| Visual articulatory & acoustic displays helpful in presenting varieties of English | AmPitch | Audacity | Wasp2 | Praat |