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Show HN: A real-time English Pronunciation feedback app

6 pointsby rubengt01about 1 year ago
English is my second language, and I&#x27;m always conscious of my speech in order to detect when the listener is having trouble understanding my accent and mispronunciations. A few years ago, I gave an investor pitch, and at the end of the presentation, the investor corrected my pronunciation for a critical word that was the core of my business. I had been mispronouncing the word the entire time without even realizing it.<p>Recently, I&#x27;ve been interviewing for a few companies, and I decided to create an app for my personal use with two goals in mind.<p>* To practice for my technical presentations and detect&#x2F;correct mistakes before the actual presentation * To detect when my speech was unclear during the interviews and become more attentive to my pronunciation in those particular moments.<p>The app has been extremely helpful to me, so I cleaned it up and am sharing it for others to use. If you are preparing for a high-stakes presentation or conversation, this tool will help you practice and correct mispronunciation. I&#x27;m looking forward to hearing feedback. If you want to try it out, here&#x27;s the link: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;real-time-pronunciation.web.app&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;real-time-pronunciation.web.app&#x2F;</a>.

3 comments

matheistabout 1 year ago
Looks really neat! I&#x27;d love to be able to click on the individual words in the report to hear back how I said it.<p>Also I&#x27;m a native speaker and I&#x27;d argue with the errors I got :). I think in each case they&#x27;re valid alternates in rapid speech. Most of the reported errors were for vowel substitutions, where I used a weak form (schwa) instead of the corresponding vowel-as-written. E.g. [əktɪvɪtiz] instead of [æktɪvɪtiz] for activities. (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EaXYas58_kc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=EaXYas58_kc</a>)<p>Which (now that I think of it) you already get right in some cases, e.g. for the second &quot;t&quot; there — in my American accent that&#x27;s flapped and there was no alert raised.
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Manik_aggabout 1 year ago
I tried it, looks neat and super helpful for folks who want to improve their english speaking.<p>I know this is early but would have loved an app for the same.<p>Feedback - Can you let me play back the mispronounced word along with what&#x27;s the right pronunciation for the same?
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android521about 1 year ago
Looks great. are there great open source libraries I can use to build an app like that?
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