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We develop our own software for working with speech — tools built as they became necessary in research and teaching. None of them are distributed publicly from this site; please get in touch if you would like to use one. Anything still in development is listed separately and marked as such.

Built and working

Praat JA

Desktop application

A Japanese-language front end for the speech analysis program Praat.

Load a sound file and run the scripts you reach for most — waveform, spectrogram, pitch, formants, TextGrid creation — from a Japanese menu in one click. Praat itself is not bundled; the application fetches it from the official distribution on first launch.

Requirements macOS (DMG) / Windows (installer)

This is an unofficial project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the developers of Praat (Paul Boersma and David Weenink, University of Amsterdam) or the official Praat project.

Vowel Formant Chart

Web tool

Plot your own vowel formants against reference values on a Bark scale.

Enter F1 and F2 and the tool draws reference values (grey) and your own measurements (red) on a single plane, over the IPA cardinal vowel quadrilateral. The axes use the Bark scale (Traunmüller 1990), and results export to PNG or CSV. A four-language edition switches between English, Korean, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese reference values.

Requirements Browser (no installation)

Speech Identification Task

Web tool

Collect responses and reaction times for identification tasks in the browser.

Records two-alternative forced-choice responses and reaction times for stimuli along a continuum, plots response-rate curves and mean reaction times per step on the spot, and exports to CSV. Suitable for classroom demonstrations and small-scale experiments.

Requirements Browser (no installation)

In development — not yet available

The following are in development and cannot be obtained yet; details may still change. Write to us naming the product if you would like to know when it will be available, or to take part in testing.

SpeechLab

In developmentiPad app · iPadOS 17.0 or later

A speech analysis app for students and language teachers.

Recording and playback, waveform, wide- and narrow-band spectrograms, and interval labelling, all on the iPad. Analysis runs entirely on device; no audio leaves it.

Specifications and support

Gotan (English)(go-tan)

In developmentiPhone app · iOS

Not a word list — an engine that optimises the order of vocabulary acquisition and review intervals (English edition).

Presentation order is set by marginal coverage gain over a target corpus, and mastery is tracked separately for each facet of knowledge: meaning recall, spelling production, listening, and usage.

Gotan Korean

In developmentiPhone app · iOS 18.0 or later

A Korean vocabulary app that builds on Sino-Korean words as a foothold.

Sixty to seventy percent of Korean vocabulary is Sino-Korean and maps regularly onto Japanese readings. The app builds that correspondence into its estimate of learning cost, distinguishing words that give a foothold, words whose meaning has drifted, and words with no Japanese counterpart. Mastery is tracked separately for meaning recall, spelling and listening.

Specifications and support

Han-bun

In developmentiPhone app · iOS 18.0 or later

Sentence-production practice in Korean, one sentence at a time.

849 sentences at TOPIK levels 1–4, ordered so that one grammar point is added at a time. Switch between producing Korean from a Japanese prompt and listening to Korean for meaning.

Specifications and support

One Sentence at a Time

In developmentiPhone app · iOS 18.0 or later

Sentence-production practice in English, one sentence at a time.

929 sentences at CEFR A1–B1, ordered so that one grammar point is added at a time. Tap a word for its headword, part of speech, phonetic transcription, translation and an example.

Specifications and support

Korean Pronunciation Diagnostics

In developmentiPhone app · iOS

Pronunciation diagnostics targeted at the Korean phonological processes Japanese speakers stumble over.

Built around coda deletion, confusion among lax, aspirated and tense stops, vowel contrasts (ㅓ/ㅗ, ㅡ/ㅜ), and connected-speech processes such as lateralisation.

Access

None of this software is distributed publicly from this site. For classroom or research use, institutional deployment, or adjustments to fit your requirements, write to us naming the software you have in mind. We are also happy to answer questions about requirements and limitations.

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