[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":451},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-37843621":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":45,"post_text":47,"what":48,"said":80,"maker_in_thread":237,"shape":249,"grid":254,"attempts":412,"same_week":413,"maker_shows":42,"maker_hidden":443,"reader_version":444,"card":445},"37843621","Speech Meter","Improve Your English Pronunciation","title","Show HN: Speech Meter – Improve Your English Pronunciation","https:\u002F\u002Fspeechmeter.com\u002F","speechmeter.com","jeanmayer",1697027577,2023,71,66,854,3109,28,"notable","languages","pronunciation practice","web_app",[24,25,26,21],"english pronunciation","accent training","speech scoring","roasted",-0.157,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":33},7,6,2,18,33,{"execution":36,"idea":39,"performance":41,"docs":43,"design":44},{"positive":37,"critical":38},0,5,{"positive":38,"critical":40},1,{"positive":37,"critical":42},11,{"positive":37,"critical":40},{"positive":40,"critical":37},[40,40,37,38,40,40,46,38,46,40,40,37,40,40,40,37,40,38,40,37,37,38,37,40,46,37,46,38,38,46,37,37,46,40,37,40,40,37,46,46],3,"Hey HN!\n\nWe built Speech Meter as a tool to practice and improve English pronunciation. It uses AI to analyze your accent and score your pronunciation accuracy. It’s great for anyone who wants to practice their pronunciation in English. I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions for improvements. I really appreciate any feedback you could have (:",{"problem":49,"audience":55,"pricing":62,"motivation":63,"time_to_build":67,"stack":73,"openness":78,"stage":79,"team_size":78},{"value":50,"source":51,"evidence":52},"Helps people practice and improve English pronunciation with AI scoring","maker",[53],{"id":54},"post",{"value":56,"source":51,"evidence":57},"Non-native English speakers practicing pronunciation",[58,59],{"id":54},{"id":60,"by":11,"text":61},"37846962","Yep! You're totally correct. The reason why I made this tool, was to help me (a non-native English speaker) to understand how I sound in English. The next feature is to add some…",null,{"value":64,"source":51,"evidence":65},"Maker is a non-native English speaker who wanted to understand how they sound in English",[66],{"id":60,"by":11,"text":61},{"value":68,"source":51,"evidence":69},"About 1 hour",[70],{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"37847105","Actually, I made this project in 1 hour (I'll write a blog about how I did this). I'm using the audio-react-recorder NPM package to record the audio, get the blob and convert it…",[74],{"value":75,"source":51,"evidence":76},"Node\u002FJavaScript audio-react-recorder package for recording",[77],{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"unknown","beta",{"praise":81,"objections":101,"requests":166,"questions":205,"alternatives":218},[82,90],{"value":83,"source":84,"evidence":85},"Fun for practicing foreign accents","commenter",[86],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"37846607","the_shivers","For what it's worth, I am having a blast with this. Great excuse to practice foreign accents. I'm American, so US is trivial, but it's rewarding to see your fake UK accent…",{"value":91,"source":84,"evidence":92},"Good idea for learning pronunciation, per-word scores appreciated",[93,97],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"37844782","ibdf","This is really interesting. I like the scoring system for each word. But if I can't pronounce one word correctly, shouldn't there be a way to listen to the right pronunciation?",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"37845305","vinc","As a French native who learned English by reading books and later spent a couple of years in English speaking countries, I'd really like to have a tool to help me fix my…",[102,125,140,152,159],{"value":103,"source":84,"evidence":104},"Scores appear random or inaccurate, same results regardless of speech",[105,109,113,117,121],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"37845327","chankstein38","This is completely non-functional. I read something completely different than the phrase given but it still gives me what seem to be high marks. I can't really tell because…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"37845098","tuukkah","It's showing me someone else's scores or hallucinating, because I got good scores even before I said anything! I tried multiple times and the numbers varied somewhat. Also: I…",{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"37845400","DrinkWater","Does that really work? I tried my best Oxford English accent, and i slurred like a total drunk: almost no change in the results, which for some reason are not explained anywhere?",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"37848741","whalkira","I tried it three times using the same phrase. Random results each time. The first one I supposedly had Australian accent. The second, British. The third, American. I forced no…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"37844828","plastic_bag","I like this! I am surprised to find out my accent heavily leans towards the US's despite me being an Indian. Then again I grew up watching a lot of American movies, it's not…",{"value":126,"source":84,"evidence":127},"Biased toward US and UK accents, ignores valid regional variation",[128,132,136],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"37846437","dfawcus","That doesn't sound like it will cope with various correct English pronunciations, as spoken by the English in England. Or even Scots, Welsh, or Irish speaking English. There are…",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"37846610","kije","As someone with a very midwestern US accent, I got a much better UK score when I used my terrible Cockney accent, about 93% UK, than I did when I used my default accent, at…",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"37846034","arrowsmith","I asked ChatGPT for a list of words that Brits and Americans pronounce very differently, combined them into some silly sentences (\"my aunt gave vitamins and herbs to the zebra in…",{"value":141,"source":84,"evidence":142},"No explanation of what scores mean or how to improve",[143,144,148],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"37845246","herodotus","Could you show a key for the numbers? I did not know what they meant.",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"37844734","rafamvc","It would be nice to have a specific set of prompts that are good to evaluate speech. For example, I am a native Portuguese speaker so I might struggle with Th's and R's. Also the…",{"value":153,"source":84,"evidence":154},"Random phrase generator repeats the same phrase",[155,158],{"id":156,"by":107,"text":157},"37845362","Also the random string generation seems to only output \"the cat is sleeping on me\" did someone accidentally publish this with mock data in it or something?",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},{"value":160,"source":84,"evidence":161},"Fails on long text without error",[162],{"id":163,"by":164,"text":165},"37845576","yunwal","It doesn't seem to work for long bits of text. I copied the first paragraph from Wiki:Random[0], and it submitted successfully on the website, but didn't receive analysis back.…",[167,176,181,192,199],{"value":168,"source":84,"evidence":169},"Show what scores mean and explain how to improve",[170,171,172],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},"37844763","morkalork","Check out this channel: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002F@MasterYourFrench They have lots of videos that go into the different pronunciations of specific phonemes, and will for example…",{"value":177,"source":84,"evidence":178},"Let users hear correct pronunciation of words",[179,180],{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},{"value":182,"source":84,"evidence":183},"Support for other languages such as French",[184,188],{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"37844695","marcodiego","I'd like something like that for French. I've extreme difficulty to differentiate between \"deux\", \"de\" and \"des\" among other very similar phonemes that are so common in the…",{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"37846769","andrewmcwatters","Je veux ça, mais pour mon accent français.",{"value":193,"source":84,"evidence":194},"Open source the project",[195],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},"37844823","anoy8888","Is it open source ?",{"value":200,"source":84,"evidence":201},"Log speech and give ongoing dictation feedback",[202],{"id":203,"by":150,"text":204},"37844770","I wish I could have this on something like superpowered.me, so I could log what I say, and give me ongoing feedback on my dictation. When I read prompts I am being more…",[206,210,214],{"value":207,"source":84,"evidence":208},"Is it open source?",[209],{"id":196,"by":197,"text":198},{"value":211,"source":84,"evidence":212},"How is the score computed and what is it based on?",[213],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},{"value":215,"source":84,"evidence":216},"Does it handle regional English accents?",[217],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},[219,226,233],{"value":220,"source":84,"evidence":221},"openlang.ai shadowing tool with Whisper scoring",[222],{"id":223,"by":224,"text":225},"37847757","sebnun","Nice, I made something similar[1] but as a general language learning tool that works with 36 languages. The main idea to improve your pronunciation is that you hear a native…",{"value":227,"source":84,"evidence":228},"Boldvoice app",[229],{"id":230,"by":231,"text":232},"37847565","marklgr","I've been using the Boldvoice app (no affiliation), it's not perfect but pretty good; my spoken English has definitely improved in a few months. I would recommend it.",{"value":234,"source":84,"evidence":235},"YouTube channel MasterYourFrench for French pronunciation",[236],{"id":173,"by":174,"text":175},{"comments":238,"answered":30,"key":239},17,[240,243,246],{"id":241,"text":242},"37846640","the request might be cached, I'll fix it. Thanks for letting me know!",{"id":244,"text":245},"37846629","that's true, I'll add a better explanation of how it works. thanks!",{"id":247,"text":248},"37846989","yep, it is 0-100. I'll add the scales. 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