Verbal naming

Supplier: http://www.parrotsoftware.com

Type of exercises & brief description:

Photos of nouns are presented for confrontation, verbal naming.  There are 20 items in each exercise set and a total of 10 exercise sets which must be purchased individually

Speech recognition software is used to assess whether the spoken attempt was correct

Prompts/cues:

If the first attempt isn’t recognised, an initial, written letter is provided. If the second attempt isn’t recognised, the word is spoken and written and the user moves to the next item automatically

Record results:

Results are shown at the end of the session. In order to receive results, the professional license must be purchased

Comments:

  •  It is difficult to identify what some of the photographs are of
  • The items are always presented in the same order
  • Not all regional accents or dysarthric speech are recognised. 
Easy to use independently: Yes
Number of exercises:
Version: UK English, American English
Access: Touchscreen
Record Results: No
Evaluation: Developed with SLT, Free trial, Prompts/cues given, Record own speaking attempts