This paper presents a set of phonetics teaching resources as modules in a more generic framework for web-based tutoring in the areas of phonetics, multimedia communication and spoken language research. Currently the toolkit consists of standalone interactive modules and lecture notes on a number of areas of phonetics, phonology and the lexicography of spoken language. The interactive presentati...

In TREC 2002 the Berkeley group participated only in the English-Arabic cross-language retrieval (CLIR) track. One Arabic monolingual run and three English-Arabic cross-language runs were submitted. Our approach to the crosslanguage retrieval was to translate the English topics into Arabic using online English-Arabic machine translation systems. The four official runs are named as BKYMON, BKYCL...

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 co...

Due to less attention the English phonetics improvements was paid by high school teaching, many Chinese university freshmen lack of most basic knowledge, for example, their verbal continuous reading is not coherent and incomplete blasting clear, some even do know how spell words correctly according phonetics. This situation has made negative effects on China’s EFL especially improvement listeni...

At Qassim University, the Blackboard (https//:lms.qu.edu.sa) Learning Management System (LMS) is used. An exploratory study was conducted on 105 randomly selected students attending Qassim University. Of these, 91 students (87%) affirmed that they did not use the LMS as a study aide. This paper describes the means by which the MIT App Inventor language could be used to develop a mobile applicat...

It could be said that Acoustics forms a bridge between speech production and speech perception, and as such it lies at the intersection of several speech communication related fields. The field of Speech and Hearing Sciences, for example, deals with speech production and speech perception. Speech Pathology also relates crucially to Acoustics. In addition, the linguistic fields of Phonetics and ...

The UPSID database, put together by Ian Maddieson and colleagues at UCLA, is a valuable material for Phonetics research and teaching. Unfortunately, its current computer implementation is oversimplified, preventing a wide access by the Phonetics community and limiting the ways in which it can be exploited. In this paper we present an on-going project called Web-UPSID, consisting of a simple but...