Speech sound animations
The vocal tract Consonants of English Sound groups Consonant comparisons
The vocal tract
Consonants of English
Click on a word to watch a video of how the consonant is produced.
| Lips | Upper teeth & lower lip | Tongue tip | Tongue front | Tongue back | Tongue back & lips | Vocal cords | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burst of air | pat bat | tot dot | cot got | |||||
| Nasal | mop | nap | sing | |||||
| Fricative | fit vat | think though | sip zip | ship vision | loch | whale | hen | |
| Burst of air with frication | cheap jeep | |||||||
| Vowel-like | rap | yes | was | |||||
| With lowered tongue sides | lip | |||||||
Sound groups
Place of articulation
The videos below show groups of sounds that are produced using the same parts of the mouth.
Manner of articulation
The videos below show groups of sounds that are produced in a similar manner, using different parts of the mouth.
Consonant comparisons
These animations compare consonants that are often substituted for one another in disordered speech, with the key consonant sounds occurring either at the beginning of a syllable, or between vowels. Videos of different speech sound comparisons are grouped under general speech sound processes.
