Development of an intellegent mobile application for teaching English pronunciation

The paper describes the development of an intellegent mobile application that can be used in language learning specially in teaching English pronuciation using speech recognation engine in mobile devices. In this research study the originality of the developed application is that a speech recognition engine has been used on the mobile phone to recognize spoken words so that any pronunciation errors can easily be identified and then corrected. This feature of the apllication increases the motivation of the learner and make learning easier and more enjoyable than the traditional learning methods. The author hopes that the study outlined in the paper becomes a intelligent model for future researchers in foreign language education. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.