Accent Reduction and English Pronunciation Training

Sounds of English
Graphics and audio clips help students understand how they should make challenging sounds. Excellent pages on word stress and intonation

The Tongue Twister Data Base
A great group of tongue twisters for pronunciation or accent work (including some devilish twisters in Hebrew, Pinoy, Dutch and Japanese!)

Studying Phonetics on the Net
For those who want to get at the linguistic scaffolding that support accent and pronunciation work this site is a treasure trove of resources for web based pronunciation learning.

Interesting Things for ESL Students
Hundreds of games, quizzes, anagrams and puzzles to strengthen English fluency skills.

American English Pronunciation Practice
(Flash Player (Version 4 or newer) plug-in is required ) This site has dozens of audio samples of paired words that help the accent learner to zero in on the sounds that are hardest for him or her.

Sammy - Interactive Sagittal Section
Interactive cross-section drawing that changes the position of articulators in the mouth as you select different features; it also gives the phonetic symbol for the sound

Pronunciation Strategies
Lots of audio samples with good supportive text to explain the principles of linking, word and sentence stress and intonation

Vocal Training and Improvement

The National Center for Voice and Speech
Useful section on warm-ups as well as great tutorials on a wide range of subjects with animations, quick-time movies and audio clips linked to the pages to enhance the text descriptions.

The Voice Foundation
This is the home page of world's leading organization dedicated to solving voice problems. Great articles on how to deal with stagefright, the effect of hormones on the voice and others

Medicine in the Vocal Arts
Lots of good medical information with a special emphasis on the singing voice

Welcome to The Center for the Voice - New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
Very well organized site with sections for singers, professional voice users such teachers, the older voice etc.

Speech-Language Pathology

OSLA (Ontario Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists)


CASLPO (College of Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists of Ontario)