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Improve your listening skills and hear about the news. Listen-and-write.com is free listening practice. Users can create and use dictation exercises and track their scores

""Julius" is a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software for speech-related researchers and developers. Based on word N-gram and context-dependent HMM, it can perform almost real-time decoding on most current PCs in 60k word dictation task. Major search techniques are fully incorporated such as tree lexicon, N-gram factoring, cross-word context dependency handling, enveloped beam search, Gaussian pruning, Gaussian selection, etc. Besides search efficiency, it is also modularized carefully to be independent from model structures, and various HMM types are supported such as shared-state triphones and tied-mixture models, with any number of mixtures, states, or phones. Standard formats are adopted to cope with other free modeling toolkit such as HTK, CMU-Cam SLM toolkit, etc. The main platform is Linux and other Unix workstations, and also works on Windows. Most recent version is developed on Linux and Windows (cygwin / mingw), and also has Microsoft SAPI version. Julius is distributed with open license together with source codes. Note: you should prepare a language model and an acoustic model to run a speech recognition with Julius. "

Social learning platform focusing on vocabulary and dictation. Learners can sign up for free, does spaced review and tracks progress. Can use "courses" already created by the company or create your own.

A site with free grammar, dictation and other exercises for French practice.

The Pinyin tutor is an online tool that promotes Chinese learners in their phonological perception (including the perception of Chinese tones, initials, finals, etc.). Through a series of online Pinyin dictation tasks and corresponding feedback, the tutor helps students be conscious of their errors and thus improve their phonological perception in Chinese eventually.

f4audio helps you transcribe audio data such as interviews or dictation. It is the digital answer to well-known cassette transcription equipment such as the Stenorette. The main functions include the variable playback speed, the rewind interval and operation via the f4 key or a footswitch from any computer programme (e.g. Word).