Lesson 94 · 2 min
Get feedback on your pronunciation
Voice tools can show you which words a machine did not understand, which is a useful mirror for your pronunciation.
One easy trick needs no special app. Use speech-to-text, the microphone button on your phone keyboard, set to the language you are learning. Read a sentence aloud and look at what it typed. Words it got wrong are words to practise.
Chatbots with voice mode can also listen and react. Ask it to say a sentence slowly, repeat it yourself, and ask how it sounded. Some apps give helpful notes; others only understand the words and cannot judge the sounds well.
Hearing a model voice helps too. Ask for a list of tricky words, have them read aloud with text-to-speech, and repeat each one several times.
Treat machine feedback as a rough guide. Speech tools handle some accents better than others, so a mistake might be the tool's. For tones, rhythm and the sounds that matter for your exam, a teacher's ear is still the best judge.
Do it now
The dictation mirror
- 1. Set your phone keyboard's voice input to the language you are learning.
- 2. Read the five sentences the prompt below gives you, one by one, into a notes app.
- 3. Circle every word it typed wrong and practise those.
I am learning [LANGUAGE] and struggle with [SOUNDS OR WORDS, if you know]. Give me 5 short everyday sentences that use these sounds a lot, then a tip on how to say the hardest sound, in simple words.
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- Speech-to-text
- AI that turns spoken words into written text, as in meeting transcripts and voice typing.
- Text-to-speech
- AI that reads written text aloud in a natural-sounding voice.