Enjoy watching your children become familiar with the 100 most common nouns by matching their spoken words, images, and written words.

This fun matching game is played like other matching games. Touch one of the games to play, and a set of tiles will appear. The goal is to match the different types of tiles, and move through more and more challenging levels.

The game reinforces language learning for pre-school, kindergarten, and early elementary school children. The multi-sensory experience with speech, images and written words engages the kids in a fun activity while simultaneously sharpening their language understanding and reading skill.
Baldi is a 3D animated character who can read you text with extraordinarily accurate mouth and face movements and convincing emotions. Baldi has been around for several decades in research, tutoring deaf and hard of hearing children, serving as a language teacher for autistic kids, and instructing children and adults in learning how to speak new languages.

You can control the rate and loudness of Baldi’s speech, his emotion, and facial and disk cues to make the task easier or more difficult.
-To change Baldi and his speech, touch the Settings button.
-In the Settings view, you can change the audio volume and the speaking rate.
-You can show Baldi in a standard Outside View or an Inside View that shows the tongue and inside the mouth (this view is valuable for language learning).
-You can change Baldi’s emotions by varying the sliders for six basic emotions.
-You can change several emotions at the same time to give an emotion mixture.
-Once you make the changes, touch the back button and choose your game.

Learn more about Baldi in action and give us your ideas about how to make Baldi more useful at http://www.animatedspeech.com/iPhoneBaldi.html

Baldi Copyright © 2010 Animated Speech Corp. All rights reserved. Baldi® is a registered trademark to Dominic W. Massaro.

Includes "BaldiEngine" code by Michael M. Cohen and Sam Vanderhyden and Game and User Interface by Dom Massaro and Sam Vanderhyden. Images by Karen T. Massaro and Dom Massaro.

Uses CMU Speech Software. http://festvox.org, http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/