The objective of this research is the construction of a new vowel notation system as a tool for learning English as a Foreign Language, mainly for adults. The Speechant (TM) Vowel Notation System is a device that works with print; the source is written text and the notation provides a method of translating from written text to sound and from sound to written text.

English vowels have similar qualities to music. Musical scale varies in pitch (linked to the fundamental frequency of vibration of waveform) just as vowel sounds vary in timbre (related to the frequency spectrum of sound).