SAY & SEE articulation therapy software

SAY & SEE is a software tool for speech therapy that displays an animated mid-sagittal view of the vocal tract in real-time on Macintosh computers in response to speech input with an ordinary microphone. The system permits users to see in a graphic and easily comprehensible way how closely they approach a targeted speech pattern. Trials of SAY & SEE at multiple sites around the country where it was used by hearing-impaired children, speech-impaired children with normal hearing, and adults with normal hearing who had suffered strokes or head injuries, have shown that SAY & SEE provides valuable feedback on the modifications to articulation needed to improve speech production. The same results have been found with students learning English as a second language (ESL), since they must struggle to pronounce phonemes that do not appear in their native languages.<<ETX>>