Sounds in Words 4+
Phonological Awareness Aid
Ayodeji Yakubu
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
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Description
Words are made of sounds joined together, one after another. Hear which sound sequences make up 85% of the most common words in General American English.
Sounds in Words App is designed to assist people to learn how to pronounce most frequently used words.
How to use Sounds in Words App.
Select a word. Symbols corresponding to the number of sounds in the word will appear in the the two buttons. Press either button to hear a sequence of sounds which make up the word. Lower button will play every vowel equally stressed. Upper button will only stress the dominant vowel.
If additional small buttons appear, then the word can be pronounced in more than one accepted way. Select each alternate small button to hear the alternative pronunciations.
Currently the Sounds in Words App contains over two thousand words most used in the English language.
Since English language has many dialects, the most widely understood English dialect was chosen for this App. This is the dialect of Hollywood films and sitcoms.
R controlled sounds are limited to 'er' while the others are divided in to separate vowel and a 'r' sound.
This App has been tested with wired headphones and the iphone’s internal speaker.
Also, there's a possibility that the App could contains some slight errors.
What’s New
Version 3.0
Works Offline. Better compatibility with different headphones and speakers.
Ratings and Reviews
It’s fixed now but has errors
I love this idea, and the update made it work, thank you! Unfortunately there are errors. For example the “y” in authority and baby both are set to be pronounced as “uh” when in fact they are pronounced as the long e sound, just as the e sounds in bee say together. If someone is using this app to learn how to pronounce words, they are going to learn how to say many words incorrectly, because I am sure there are many examples!
Another issue is often when the word is pronounced rapidly as in normal speech, it will sound very different than when it is chopped apart into little chunks of speech. We have a flapping rule where when a t is often pronounced as closer to a d sound. So as an example, the word “automatic” in normal speech will often be pronounced as if it t sounds were d sounds. Adding a button at the top of each entry to hear the word alone, and in a sentence, would be very helpful for English language learners.
Developer Response ,
An updated version with bug fixes should be out within a week (hopefully).
Spam
0 starts this app doesn’t work!!!
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Information
- Seller
- Ayodeji Yakubu
- Size
- 18.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.3 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.3 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2017 Ayodeji Yakubu
- Price
- Free