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As someone who took English classes for years growing up, I wish that were the case. In fact, most teachers don't really know how to teach pronunciation. Also, in a typical group class setting, it's challenging to give each student one-on-one feedback. On BoldVoice, we solve that with 1) unlimited instant feedback from sound-level AI - your most patient coach. 2) in-depth video lessons from the best coaches in the world (Hollywood accent coaches). I'm a cofounder of BoldVoice, by the way. :)

Native speakers are less helpful at this than you might think. Speech coaches are absolutely the way to go, but they're outside the price range for most people ($200+/hr for a good coach). BoldVoice gives coach-level feedback and instruction at a price point that everyone can access, on demand.

"If Victor wanted to move beyond this point, the sound-by-sound phonetic analysis available in the BoldVoice app would allow him to understand the patterns in pronunciation and stress that contribute to Eliza’s accent and teach him how to apply them in his own speech."

Indeed Victor would likely receive a personalized lesson and practice on the NG sound on the app.

If you're still actively using the app, the voice will be retained and processed so that you can receive instant feedback, and also so that you receive additional personalized practice items and video lessons based on your speech needs. If you don't want the samples saved "in perpetuity", you can request them to be deleted once you decide that you're done with the application. Hope this helps!

You can reach out and request your data to be deleted at any time.

Thanks for checking it out! We're 100% in on English for now, but some day!

Gotcha, totally fair to be discerning with your data these days.

Hi, founder here! We're a YC-funded education app with over 1 million downloads, currently #7 on the Education chart of the App Store. The goal of the accent oracle tool is to help more non-native English speakers find out about BoldVoice. While it's important as consumers to be aware of data privacy with AI tools in general, I want to set the record straight that that's not the point of what we're doing here. But great to hear that we got your accent right :)

Thanks - we're aware! There's also a concept of a general American accent. Since the app is for non-native English speakers, a general American accent is the goal more so than a regional accent. We built the app together with professional accent coaches -- if you're interested in our methodology, you can learn more on boldvoice.com.

BoldVoice.com/privacy

Conspiracy theories are fun! But we're a language learning app (YC s21). We help non native English speakers to work on their accents so they can speak English confidently. The accent oracle is a marketing tool for us to get in front of new users.

Nice suggestion! BoldVoice focuses on helping non-native English speakers to learn the American accent, so we tailored the accent oracle to non-native accents specifically.

Fun to see this in the wild! I'm one of the co-founders of BoldVoice, AMA :) p.s. I'm Albanian and it guesses either Albanian or English for me, sometimes randomly Spanish.

Not true - from the makers :)