Say It: English Pronunciation

Phona

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About this app

Do you want to improve your English speaking, listening, pronunciation and vocabulary? The award-winning Say It: English Pronunciation makes speech pronunciation visual, interactive and easier to learn. Feel more confident speaking American or British English with Say It (SayIt app).

FREE 7-day trial with access to basic tests, sounds and all 44 phonemes with a selection of 100 words, in British and American English accent, and up to 50% off first 1-month subscription! (£11.99 p/mth at end of introductory period - cancel at any time, see below.)

🏆 Winner of the English Speaking Union President's Award for New Technology in ELT. 🏆

SayIt is like having a private English pronunciation teacher on your device! Try it today - free version includes 100 sample words covering all 44 sounds in standard English. Upgrade to access games, more advanced tests and features with 36,000+ words in British and American English.

HOW IT WORKS
💪 see the soundwave, syllables, and which are stressed (strong)
👉 touch and drag to listen to the pronunciation slowly
👆 tap the phonemes (IPA symbols, British/American English)
🎤 record your pronunciation, compare to the Oxford model
😀 get feedback from your teacher, friends or colleagues - share your voice recording and soundwave directly from the app

In research conducted by university colleagues, international students predominantly rated all features of Say It - range of vocabulary, phonetic alphabet blocks, stress markers, interactive soundwaves - as ‘very useful’. The majority of respondents agreed that using SayIt over a longer period would enable them to:

* Perform better academically
* Increase their enjoyment of living in the UK

SayIt is designed and developed by our team of language teachers and pronunciation experts, and includes 36,000+ recordings from Oxford. The unique visual interface allows you to interact with the model and your recording, pinpointing difficult areas and improving them quickly.

- Improve professional and Business English skills, for your work or career; feel more confident in meetings and when networking in more advanced English
- Covers 75%+ of the Academic Word List; ideal for university study, preparing for IELTS, TOEFL, Cambridge First (B2), Advanced (C1), or Proficiency (C2)
- Downloaded in over 155 countries, by professionals, students and teachers

Research shows practising your English pronunciation also improves your:
💬 Speaking
🎧 Listening
📚 Reading
🖋 Writing
✅ Grammar

Teachers - your students will love using SayIt! The app is co-designed by teachers and learners. Our objective is to empower learners, demystifying the sound-spelling system in English and making pronunciation improvement accessible for everyone.

Subscribe to SayIt to access to our full range of content - try it FREE with 100 words for 7 days (£11.99 p/mth at the end of 7 days, and you can cancel any time before then without charge). Payment will be charged to your Google Play account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the chargeable period. You can check when your subscription will renew in SayIt, or cancel at any time via the Google Play account details on your device. When a subscription is cancelled, access to the app’s full content will expire at the end of the current payment period.

While SayIt offers access to large American and British English word lists - they can take a few minutes to download, depending on your WIFI access.

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We love to connect with teachers as much as our learners! Get in touch or follow us and find out how we can support all your learners -

* Email: [e-mail]
* Facebook: /sayitpron
* Instagram: /sayit_pronunciation

Ratings and reviews

Its got a lot of potential with both audible and visual feedback.. However, it lacks intuitiveness. The filter is confusing. I thought I could add some words in there to group. But the filter feature is unresponsive. I keep pressing buttons expecting them do something but no action occurs The lookup feature does not allow scrolling through all available words. Instead the starting character has to be input each time to switch to the words starting with a subsequent character.

The audio recording part of the app stops working from time to time. It would be great if it would provide some kind of feedback to indicate if your recording approximates the expected pronunciation. Sometimes you don't start speaking immediately and the sound graph looks completely different it would be great if the silence at the begining of the audio recording didn't show up on the graph.

You can even try the app without signing up for a premium trial. Horrible invasive sales technique. Free portion of app should be readily available. I was going to use this for speech therapy but immediately turned off by this requirement. It that old scam where they hope you forget before the trial is up so they can charge you.

What's new

Updates to fix crashes that appeared on some devices with latest SDK