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 SayIt: English Pronunciation app makes speech pronunciation visual, interactive and easier to learn. Feel more confident speaking American or British English with Say It (SayIt app).

FREE download and 7-day trial with access to basic tests, sounds and all 44 phonemes with a carefully curated selection of 100 words, in British and American English accent, and now 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 an on-call private English pronunciation teacher with you 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 library pronunciation slowly
👆 tap the phonemes (IPA symbols, British/American English)
🎤 record your own pronunciation, and compare it to the Oxford model
😀 self-assess your progress and 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 SayIt - 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

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.

The app is fantastic – the soundwave really helps to correct yourself. I couldn’t find any other apps with this feature. However, massively disruptive is the speed – it takes up to one minute until the search box allows to type in your search text. I find myself frustrated and not using the app as much I’d love to. Question to developers – is there a way to export my recorded words? If I can export them then I could try to fully uninstall the app and reinstall.

I'm not sure if this is good for everyone, but mode people will find some value from this app. It's very good for showing the different - ed in English verbs, ch and sh and other sounds students struggle with. It's also great that they can study alone before class if they are embarrassed by speaking. A version for sentences would be great too , one day! Showing the linking sounds and stress. Anyway, this is a good app.

What’s new

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