Using a speech recognition program in teaching English pronunciation
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1 Introduction In addition to the existing computer programs that have been designed specifically for foreign language pronunciation (or intonation) training, a number of software packages are available today that can be used in phonetics classes, although they have not been developed for this particular purpose. The aim of this paper is to briefly analyse a speech recognition program and to consider its usability within an English phonetics curriculum for EFL learners at university level.
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