icSpeech Professional Edition

Speech intelligibility is a must in a society that is speeding up towards whatever goals it may have in mind. That is why every little flaw could impact an individual’s career path and even social life. Fortunately, there are therapists who could help you get rid of speech flaws, so it’s not the end of the world if you cannot pronounce a specific word or sound right.

However, if you trust your gut and know you can solve the problem yourself, an application such as icSpeech Professional could really come in handy since it provides invaluable assistance and feedback so that you can correct your speech in real time.

First off, it should be pointed out that the program introduces itself as a multiparameter speech therapy tool. It can thus assess the quality of your speech on multiple levels, and the visual feedback it promises makes it stand out from the crowd.

That means a microphone capable of making accurate recordings is among the requirements of this program since its measurements highly depend on it. But aside from that, you may also employ a nasality microphone, SNORS, laryngograph EGG and linguagraphs EPG, a frame grabber as well as a webcam, each of these devices capturing your speech for a comprehensive analysis.

As such, the application can keep an eye on your pitch, voice intensity, nasal or oral speech, speech rate, intelligibility, lingual weight, jitter, shimmer, aerodynamic ratio, nasal and oral airflow, and plenty of other aspects.

Aside from keeping track of all these parameters, the program includes a series of other goodies such as a pronunciation coach, which help you improve your speech, along with a component helping you better differentiate between minimal pairs.

All things considered, icSpeech Professional is a well put-together program focused on providing you with various hints on how to improve your speech based on real-time assessments. The program relies on bleeding-edge speech recognition functionality and could be successfully used in speech therapy.