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This site hosts free, open-source tools that give a numerical and visual assessment of the prosodic characteristics of singing and speech.

New Speech Rate Meter 2

See how fast you speak with live estimates of speech rate, articulation, and pauses. Review session history and charts, or analyze a WAV recording — all processing happens on your device. Available for Windows and Linux, and on Google Play for Android.

Statistical analyzers

Intonation trainers

Users

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Authors

Downloads

Windows and Linux builds, user guides, and source code for each tool. The latest release is Speech Rate Meter 2 — desktop and Android on Google Play.

Chinese Speech Intonation Trainer 2 (IntonTrainer 2.0)

IntonTrainer 2.0 is a cross-platform desktop application for learning and improving Chinese speech intonation. It records your voice, compares your pitch contour against a native-speaker reference using Constrained Dynamic Time Warping (CDTW), and gives an instant similarity score (0–100%) with a Unified Melodic Profile (UMP).

Training can run hands-free with automatic voice-activity detection, or as a guided Play & Listen cycle. You get a live waveform while you speak, a trend of recent scores, and an optional advanced analysis view (pitch, spectrogram, DTW alignment). Built for language learners, phonetics students, speech therapists, and researchers.

Reference sample categories with practice progress and similarity scores
Reference categories and progress
Chinese one-tone phrase list with practice filters and individual scores
Chinese phrases to practise
Training result showing a 95 percent similarity score and reference and learner melodic curves
Melody comparison and similarity score

Analyzers

Trainers

How it works

  • The system compares the melodic (tonal) portraits of a reference phrase and a phrase spoken by the learner, with active learner–system interaction.
  • The main algorithms used for analyzing and comparing intonation features are described in the papers and the advanced user guide.
  • A set of reference sentences represents the basic intonation patterns of English speech and their main varieties.
  • A current linguistic idea is that a foreign accent is more evident and stable in intonation than in segmental sounds.
  • IntonTrainer 2.0 uses the same comparison of unified melodic portraits, with an updated interface, automatic recording, and instant similarity scoring. See the Chinese 2.0 download (desktop and Android on Google Play) and the project on GitHub.

Papers

In English

In Russian