Every consonant in English is three decisions your mouth makes without asking you.
Here you make them on purpose, in a cross-section of a head, and listen to what comes out.
1
Place is where the air gets squeezed — lips, teeth, the ridge behind your teeth, the hard palate, the soft palate, the throat. Move it and watch the tongue follow.
2
Manner is what happens there: air stopped dead, forced through a narrow gap, sent around the sides of the tongue, or routed out through the nose.
3
Voicing is whether the vocal folds are buzzing while it happens. It is the only difference between s and z.
4
A prompt names a sound. Set all three, press SAY IT to hear your own setting, and lock in when the mouth on screen looks right.
WHAT THIS IS AND IS NOT
This is a phonetics toy: it teaches how speech sounds are described and produced.
It is not therapy, screening, or assessment, it does not listen to your voice, and
nothing here is a substitute for a speech-language pathologist.
DRAG turn the model ← → place ↑ ↓ manner V voicing SPACE say it ENTER lock in R restart
A REMINDER
Describing a sound is not the same as teaching someone to produce it. If you are worried
about a child's speech or your own, a licensed speech-language pathologist is the right
next step — not a browser game.