The Listening Centre at Wolfson House

The Listening Centre consists of ten soundproof, air-conditioned cubicles. These are equipped with cassette players or reel to reel tape machines and loudspeakers or headphones. Students can listen to our large library of cassette and reel to reel tapes in order to practice their phonetic transcription and pronunciation. The equipment allows them to monitor their own efforts by recording themselves using "listen" and "repeat" buttons on special control panels. We also have a video booth in which the students can watch recordings of some of our lectures as well as a small library of commercially produced video tapes about speech and hearing.

From this academic year we can also offer a Macintosh computer equipped with software for learning the IPA symbols and for an "Auditory Tour" of the ear. We now also have a booth containing a PC with CD-ROM that can run a variety of new computer aided learning software.

We also offer, for sale, cassette copies of our own "in-house" tapes to teachers from other institutions and to students so that they can continue their listening practice at home; and other audio recordings on CD and CD-ROM.

The Listening Centre is administered by Mary Wykes and is open Mondays to Fridays (10.30 - 3.30pm) during term time.