Articulation Calibration

Tune each accent’s vowels and consonant gestures by ear.

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Anatomy lock on Drag the orange root, green body, and blue tip independently. The handles recruit neighbouring tongue tissue and cannot cross. The purple handle controls the lips. Changes save in this browser and feed the phrase sequencer.

Accent and reference sound

Selected vowel

hid /ɪ/ Kit

Monophthongs have one shape. Diphthongs expose a start and end shape; tune both while the voice sustains.

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Audition

One noteWide

Articulators

Closed /m/Open
OralNasal /ŋ/
Wide larynxNarrow
BreathyVoiced

Transverse tongue / side airflow

Closed contactOpen groove
Lateral bracingSide escape
LeftRight
PharynxTeeth
LocalBroad

These are parallel centre, left, and right Fluid paths—not merely a different drawing of the old tube. “low” starts with centre contact and open sides; “red” starts with a centre groove and lateral bracing.

Area function