Hello,

I’ve written a little tool to help with training the Chinese pronouncation. What it does is pretty simple: It grabs a sentence from Popup Chinese, plays it to your speakers, records you saying the same sentence and then plays both the original and your version back to you.

Additionally it does a pitch analysis using PRAAT which shows you how you managed to pronounce the tones. And it keeps track of the sentences for you. It’s a very quick and easy way to really make progress on your pronouncation.

I’ve put up a few screenshots here:

http://randomengineering.wordpress.com/

Right now it’s only two weeks old and in a pretty early stage of development. So before making it public I’d like to run a closed beta for a couple of weeks.

If you are interested in the tool, have time to actually use it and if you are premium Popup Chinese subscriber, leave me a comment on the blog post and I’ll email you a dropbox link with the program.

What you need to use it is a PC with Windows, .Net 4.0 installed and a microphone.

Best, Noah

PS: The program and this closed beta is David-Approved(tm), meaning I talked to him first about it to make sure it doesn’t violate any rules :-)

PPS: If you prefer not leaving your email here, you can also email me at mandarinspeechtrainer [at] gmail.com