icSpeech Professional Edition

Compatible instrumentation

icSpeech Professional Edition is compatible with a wide range of speech instrumentation. Its flexible USB architecture lets you choose any combination of instruments to suit your specific need and budget. Data from these devices can be captured independently, or synchronously combined to enable the coordinated measurement of the main speech articulators.

Multiparameter data

Depending on the connected instrumentation, the following parameters are supported:

	Microphone	Nasometry	Anemometry	Electropalatography	Electroglottography	Webcam	Frame grabber
Nasal speech
Oral speech
Combined speech
Speech intelligibility
Speech rate
Speech spectrogram
Speech FFT
Speech LPC
Pitch
Voice intensity
Voice-onset time
Acoustic nasalance
Nasal airflow
Oral airflow
Combined airflow
Aerodynamic nasalance
Aerodynamic ratio
Auxiliary channel
Alveolar tongue contact
Palatal tongue contact
Velar tongue contact
Left lateral contact
Right lateral contact
Midline contact
Lingual weight
Lingual balance
Lingual center of gravity
EGG waveform
EGG intensity
EGG frequency
Closed quotient
Jitter
Shimmer
Video
Videofluoroscopy
Nasendoscopy
Stroboscopy
Ultrasound

Displays

icSpeech Professional Edition features a multiple-document interface (MDI) that supports various methods of displaying multiparameter data. These include waveforms, dynamic bar charts, palatograms, video, spectrograms and spectrums. All displays can be synchronously viewed in real-time for visual feedback, recorded for off-line analysis or printed for hard copy. Using cursors, many of the displays allow you to perform precise measurements on the recorded multiparameter data. In addition, the data can be exported to comma-separated values (CSV) files for external processing.

Data recorder

icSpeech Professional Edition can synchronously record multiparameter data. The easy-to-use setup lets you quickly configure the recorder for any combination of instrumentation. The voice prompt feature makes recording fun and interactive. Voice prompts including pictures, words or phrases can be configured to appear during recording and also annotate the recorded data. icSpeech comes complete with a large selection of voice prompts, or you can create your own using the built-in editor. You can also make notes and attach them to the recording.

Games

icSpeech games provide a fun and interactive environment for children to learn about speech. Each of the six games feature adjustable targets, rewards and can be controlled by the multiparameter data, including speech, voice, airflow and lingual. Data from the gaming sessions can also be recorded for off-line analysis.

Pronunciation tools

A set of tools featuring state-of-the-art speech recognition and text to speech technology provide valuable guidance and feedback on pronunciation skills. The tools include Pronunciation Coach, Speech Intelligibility Scorer and Minimal Pairs Tutor.

System Requirements

Supported operating systems	Windows 10, 8, 7 and Vista
CPU	x32 and x64 architecture
Memory	Minimum 2 GB of RAM
Storage	100 MB of free hard disk space
Microphone	USB headset microphone recommended
Webcam (optional)	Windows compatible webcam
Frame Grabber (optional)	Microsoft WDM compatible Frame Grabber
Nasometry (optional)	Nasality Microphone
Anemometry (optional)	SNORS
Electropalatography (optional)	Linguagraph EPG
Electroglottography (optional)	EGG-D200