Record one paragraph — see the exact words you said wrong — free tools, and the same video goes out in other languages
An accent is a handful of sounds. One recording finds yours.
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27 languages
🎬 ACCENT REPORT · take 01 · 41s
🎧 i said it should be
"tird lesson" → third lesson
"i am reddy" → i am ready
"very value" → every value
📊 the sounds behind them
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æ ██████░░░░ 6
ɪ ████░░░░░░ 4
v ███░░░░░░░ 3
📉 after one week
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🌍 this same take, once uploaded
→ 27 languages, free
Three steps. Nothing leaves your computer.
1 · Record one paragraph of your lesson on your phone.
2 · Play it to the program below. It writes down what you said.
3 · Practise only the words it marks, then upload take 02 — the other languages sit on the same file.
What to install
- Marks every word you said wrong, and shows the sound it expected — OpenPronounce, free, Windows and Linux.
- Writes down what you said, with the time of each word — faster-whisper, free.
- Shows any English word as the sounds inside it — espeak-ng, free.
Nothing to install
- Lays your recording over your own text and points at the word that broke — WebMAUS, from a German university, free in your browser.
While you practise — the same habits make a lesson easy to follow
- Watches your speed, pauses and filler words — drewkhoury.com/projects/speak, free, nothing uploaded.
- Shows you when you go past 130 words a minute — Tembrica’s pacer, free.
- Fixes the loudness and the background hum — Auphonic, two hours free every month.
The same video in other languages, free — your accent stops being the reason to rewind
- Dubs your video into 27 languages by itself — YouTube’s own dubbing.
- Adds your voice in other languages, plus captions you can edit — YouTube’s audio tracks and its captions.
- Re-dubs the reels you already post — Instagram and Facebook translation, free.
Tonight, in this order
- record one paragraph of your lesson
- read the list of words it marks
- say those words for nine minutes, upload take 02
🧰 More tools for the same job, each with its licence
Listening and scoring
- Cut the silent gaps out of a recording — vidclean.net, free, in the browser. · Remove the "um"s and "uh"s — erm, MIT, offline.
- Transcript with the sounds lined up, not just the words — whisperX, BSD-2.
- The same transcription on an ordinary laptop, no graphics card — whisper.cpp, MIT.
- A confidence score on every word, so the shaky ones show — whisper-timestamped, AGPL-3.0.
- Very light, offline, many languages — vosk, Apache-2.0.
- The version linguistics laboratories use — Montreal Forced Aligner, MIT. · The same job with a window to click — gentle, MIT.
- 5 hours of pronunciation scoring a month, nothing to install — Azure Speech.
- Speaks, waits for you to repeat, marks you — Mimora, MIT.
- Draws your vowels next to a native speaker’s — Visible Vowels, free. · Two recordings side by side — Sonic Visualiser, GPL-2.
- Looks at speech for a living — praat.org, free. · Shows the pitch and length of each sound — SIL Speech Analyzer, free.
- Turns the report into daily practice — an Anki add-on · Anki, free · 5,000 learner recordings scored by experts — speechocean762.
- The correct sounds those programs check you against — the CMU dictionary, free.
Sounds and words
- Pairs of words that differ by one sound, so you can drill that sound alone — Minimal Pair Explorer, free.
- An audio clip for any English word, no account — dictionaryapi.dev. · 1.4 million words spoken by real people in 315 languages — Lingua Libre.
- 75,000 clean word recordings, free to reuse in your lessons — Shtooka, CC-BY.
- The same sentence spoken by many different people — Tatoeba, free.
- 1,800 native speakers from 135 countries — IDEA, free. · Everyone reading one paragraph, so you can compare — the Speech Accent Archive, free.
- 7,000 names and places in American English — Voice of America. · The Australian broadcaster’s own list — ABC Pronounce.
- Mouth, tongue and airflow for every English sound — the University of Iowa library, free.
- Hear your word inside real videos, 20 searches a day free — YouGlish. · Click any sound symbol and hear it — ipachart.com, free.
🌍 Machine voices, free corrections, and the rest of the languages
Read this before a paid lesson goes out with a machine voice
- Your voice in another accent, free for commercial videos — OpenVoice, MIT.
- Copies a voice in 23 languages, commercial use allowed — Chatterbox, MIT.
- Small, free, runs without a graphics card — Kokoro, Apache-2.0.
- Ten minutes of your speech teaches it your voice — RVC, MIT.
- Whole dubbing setups you run yourself — Linly-Dubbing and VideoLingo, Apache-2.0.
- Free plans, watermarked output, so a paid video needs the paid plan or the self-hosted route — Fish Audio, ElevenLabs, Cartesia.
- Keeps the speaker, changes the accent — the research demo.
Where native speakers correct you, free
- Post a short clip, people tell you what to fix — r/JudgeMyAccent.
- Voice notes corrected within minutes — HelloTalk, free plan.
- A free textbook on speaking English as a second language — Iowa State · a shorter free chapter — CUNY.
- A free certified diction course from a Turkish state university — KTÜ · free Spanish diction drills — oratoria.org.
- An English pronunciation guide written in Hindi — Hinlish · Arabic text-to-speech that plays each sound — Speecher.
- A browser prompter that scrolls a marked script — PrompterOne, free · screen and voice recording — OBS Studio, free.
- A local Indian-accent English voice setup, from this board — the same forum.
Record it, read the list, practise the list — then one upload carries the same lesson into 27 languages.
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