The student also has the option of listening to a model pronunciation of the cues and of all the possible responses. The material from the dialogues forms the core of the other sections of the CD-ROM, which help students master oral skills as well as grammar and vocabulary through various exercises and games. In the pronunciation section, fragments from the dialogues are given with a model pronunciation that students repeat. A spectrograph compares the student's response to the model. The program evaluates how near the student's pronunciation is to the native one provided, and then assigns a score.
Students can also listen to their voice recording and compare it with the model.
The models can be broken down into individual words or phrases and treated in the same way as the whole sentences. Figure 2 A comprehension section provides a video, with a commentary in French, and then a series of comprehension questions. A translation of the text is also available. The program also includes a series of exercises and games that integrate the grammar and vocabulary from the dialogues into interactive activities. Several of these activities utilize speech recognition.