Vowel Target

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.

Description

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.