Design of English Pronunciation Training System for Android

Abstract:

This paper is devoted to an English Pronunciation training system on the Android platform with functions like English transcription, word pronunciation demonstration, listening and repeating, pronunciation comparison, grading, pronunciation feedback and correction. The training system is designed and developed in line with the characteristics of Android operation system, giving full play to the advantages of Android platform by calling the relevant functions of function interface and components to improve the development efficiency of the system. The system is of high real-time and reliability with a series of multimedia techniques like the pronunciation mouth video-based animation, internal mouth structure figure, pronunciation guidance of mouth and tongue positions, and can effectively guide the learners to learn and practice English pronunciation.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 631-632)
• Pages: 427-430
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.631-632.427
• Online since: September 2014
• Authors: Xiao Yun Liu, Jian Shen*
• Keywords: Android, English Pronunciation Training, Mobile Internet, Scoring Modul

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