ANALYS OF A DIGITAL TOOL TO EXPERIENCE THE SPEECH

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of a digital tool to help sociophonetics studies called Localingual. Localingual is an online map based on donations samples of voices in any language. The goal of this study is to analyze the usability of the tool, as well as to discuss its relevance to the sociophoneticsl studies.The usability is evaluated based on the Model of Accessibility in Electronic Goverment (eMAG). Results show that some of eMAG guidelines of consistency and familiarity, informational and design, were applied. Those related to context and navigation, autonomy, error and writing, were not incorporated into the digital tool.