Try it at http://ajc5.github.io/visual-vocals!
Visual Vocals is interactively visualizes the anatomy of speech. It follows the IPA and it is intended to be used as a universal language script.
Uses:
- pronounce language sounds by viewing speech organ positions rather than reading transliterated approximations
- learn language sounds without the additional burden of memorizing abstract scripts. Good for kids.
- learn how to pronounce words by knowing which speech organs to control. Good for the deaf, blind and speech impaired.
- learn unfamiliar language scripts quickly by mapping them to their visual vocalizations
- pronounce new words correctly in non-phonetic languages like English
- pronounce words without confusion when languages share the same script but have different pronunciations, eg, the letter A in Dutch and English.