Uttera comes from to utter: to pronounce, to say out loud. This is that part of the name.
Language apps do many things well and one thing poorly: they only let you hear their own content. You can repeat their lesson forty times, but you cannot ask them how "the flight has been delayed, can I change my connection?" sounds — which is exactly the sentence you need tomorrow at seven in the morning at a desk.
That is what Pronounce does.
1. You write it in your own language. The page is in your language and you type in it. You choose which language you want to learn to say it in. Up to 300 characters: a sentence, not a text.
2. This is how it's said. The sentence appears in the language you're studying, with its phonetic transcription. And there you stop and read.
The audio is generated separately, when you want it and at the speed you choose. That is deliberate: seeing the sentence is free and generating it isn't, and there is no sense in paying to hear something you haven't read yet. It also works better — reading the phonetics before hearing them makes you notice what you're about to hear.
3. Now you say it. You record yourself — browser microphone or a file — and we give you back what we understood, marking word by word what came out and what didn't.
And this is what makes it different from everything else: there is no score. No stars, no percentage, no streak.
There is a mirror. If you wrote "red" and the transcript says "red", you said it recognisably. If it says "read", you now know exactly which sound is failing you, and where.
A number tells you that you did it 78% right. It does not tell you what to fix. For learning, an honest mirror is worth more, which is why we left the number out even though it was easier to show.
Worth saying, because this sector promises a lot:
The same thing lives at POST /v1/pronunciation if you want it inside your own product — a
training platform, a language app, a speech-therapy exercise. It takes the audio and the
expected sentence, and returns what was understood with the differences marked: which word
is extra, which is missing and which was swapped for another.
There is no estimate before you record, on purpose. Someone practising is not evaluating a service: they are repeating one sentence fifteen times. Putting a meter in front of every attempt turns practice into an economic decision, and that is precisely what breaks the exercise.
Your usage is where it always is, in your account.
Anything to add or correct? Write to support@uttera.ai. If you correct us, we edit the post and credit you.
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