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.