Cool Speech app for iPhone and iPad

Description

A PRIZE-WINNING APP
Cool Speech won the British Council ELTon award for Digital Innovation in English language teaching for 2013. One of the judges wrote: ‘I thought this was great. I can listen at different speeds, build up, try dictation. Record my own voice trying to speak faster. ... Its easy, intuitive, it works, I would certainly recommend it to an advanced learner struggling with real-time English.’

FOR INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED STUDENTS OF ENGLISH
The complete solution for intermediate and advanced students of English who want to achieve the highest levels of listening and pronunciation in British English.

FOR USE IN THE CLASSROOM AND SELF-STUDY
A big app, with lots of material, at a great price. Easy to project onto a screen. Teachers’ guides, and worksheets are available from the Speech in Action website.

LEARNING TO DECODE FAST SPEECH
Students of English complain that speed of speech is their biggest problem in learning to listen. Cool Speech gives you direct access to fast speech, and teaches you to understand it.



NATURAL FLUENT PRONUNCIATION
Advanced students of English need pronunciation activities which bridge the gap between slow careful speech and natural fluent speech: Cool Speech provides pronunciation activities for all the vowels and consonants of British English at three different speeds, with a choice of male and female voices.



USED IN MORE THAN 35 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD
Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam.

WHAT’S IN THE APP?



LISTENING

Seventy-two screens of work on intensive listening.

Fast spontaneous speech from eight different speakers

Twenty-four listening comprehension exercises - each with multi-touch follow up 

Twenty-four multi-touch screens to compare fast and slow speech

Tap once to hear fast everyday (messy) speech
Tap twice to hear slow careful speech

Twenty-four interactive exercises on rhythm, speed, and dictation


PRONUNCIATION

Forty-eight screens of work on pronunciation. 

All the sounds of British English 

A choice of a male or a female voice as a model

A choice of working at fast, slow, or fluent speeds. 

Natural examples from real speech.

USER COMMENTS
***** I thought this was great. I can listen at different speeds, build up, try dictation. Record my own voice trying to speak faster. ... Its easy, intuitive, it works, I would certainly recommend it to an advanced learner struggling with real-time English (ELTon award judge).


***** The sound was excellent, the recording was easy to do and easy to playback!

***** Everything I tried worked beautifully!

***** Very easy to navigate around!

***** Wow! Amazing!