User's Manual

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Options: Audio, Video and Speech Recognition

Audio

You can change the volume and speech delivery.

It’s up to you if you want to keep the sound effects which come with the exercises.

Speech recognition

Click on the Speech recognition button to activate this option in the activities where it is available.

Activate the Background noise test option to check that your microphone is working properly.

You can also ask TeLL me More

to indicate the moment when you should speak with a beep in the activities

with speech recognition.

The difficulty level is an essential variable for the activities that use speech recognition. The level ranges from 1

to 7: the higher the number, the more demanding the computer is about your pronunciation. If your score is

lower than the difficulty level that you have chosen (purple rectangles), TeLL me More

will not accept your

answer; you will therefore have to say the word or sentence again. If your score is higher than or equal to the

difficulty level (dark blue rectangles), the activity will continue as normal.

Pronunciation: display

You can see your recording represented in three different ways. You can choose to display the waveform of your

pronunciation, the pitch curve representing the intonation of your recording, or both at the same time. You can

then improve your pronunciation by comparing your recording as represented by the graphs with those of the

model shown.

For further details about this option, refer to the Waveforms and pitch curves section.

Recommendations and solutions

Recommendations

Installing the headset

Connect the headset to the inputs corresponding to the sound card.

These inputs can usually be found at the back of your computer.

The microphone corresponds to the

plug of the headset. This plug must be connected to the sound card input

marked Mic or

. The headphones correspond to the ² plug of the headset. This plug must be connected to

the sound card input marked Spk/Line out or