We are excited to announce that on Monday, Mango launched our new voice comparison feature.
This feature is automatically included in your current subscription at absolutely no charge!
Voice comparison helps users improve their speaking skills. It’s completely integrated within each Mango Basic Lesson (currently not in the Complete version). All you need is a microphone and a passion for perfectly proper pronunciation!
This is how it works: after a user completes a slide, the voice compare button will appear. They can then record their voice and play it back to hear themselves speak. In addition, they can align a visual representation of their recording with the native speaker’s version for comparison. Users may adjust their pronunciation until it lines up with ours–they’ll be speaking like a native in no time!
Want to see a one-on-one demo? Contact us at a 877-Mango-11.
Meet Beverly Cornell
I have been called "The Oracle" at Mango Languages. I make sure that we reach out to the community as our online language learning software is created by the people...for the people.
I’ve tried to access this feature on two different computers but can’t get the record feature to work so I can hear my voice. Any suggestions.
Not sure – as we have had no other support tickets for this issue. I will let our Tech Support staff know and they will be in touch.
Is there any particular kind of microphone that should be used, or would any work?
Hi Jim -
Any microphone that is supported by Flash should work great!
Thank you for your question.
Beverly
I am encountering the same problem where I cannot get the voice comparison recording feature to work. The controls are “greyed” out. I am not using a webcam / microphone, only a headset with a microphone that plugs into the microphone jack. Should this feature work with a headset / microphone, or will it only work with a webcam / microphone?
@Michael If you right click anywhere in the window and select “Settings…” from the menu that pops up, you should get a window that has 5 tabs along the bottom. One of those tabs should have a little microphone icon on it, and if you click on that it should bring up the microphone configuration for our program. Flash doesn’t always properly detect your microphone, so you may need to select a different one from the dropdown, or raise the volume.
If that doesn’t work, try updating your Flash Player to the latest version by going to http://www.adobe.com/go/EN_US-H-GET-FLASH and installing the version they suggest.
A4tech and Logitech both makes great sounding headset microphone*;”