YOUR PRONUNCIATION STUDIO

Find your voice.

Step into the studio. Choose a sound, practise three words, and listen to your own voice.

Bristol recording studio with a microphone, pop filter and acoustic panels

Studio ready

SOUND LAB · IPA

One sound. Three words. Your voice.

Choose an IPA symbol. Explore the sounds of American English. Tap a tile to listen to its available model.

Vowels & diphthongs

Consonants

Tap a symbol to hear its sound. Use step 2 to practise three words with that sound.

LISTEN · WATCH · REPEAT

Practise /i/

WATCH · TONGUE · LIPS · AIRFLOW

/i/

Watch the side and front views. The arrows illustrate airflow. The animation is a schematic guide with a sound model. Its movement is illustrative, not an exact synchronization with the recording.

/i/

Record the sound, then try the three words.

0 of 3 words recorded

Your recordings stay in this tab. Download them before leaving. There is no automatic scoring.

About the voices

Temporary demonstration sound models: Vocabulary.com IPA pronunciation guide. Audio recordings are unchanged. Vocabulary.com, a division of IXL Learning. All rights reserved. The /ʌ/ and /ə/ tiles use the same source recording, as on that guide. The /ɝ/ and /ɚ/ models retain the existing American English phoneme synthesis. Synthesized backups remain available if an audio model cannot play. Human word recordings: see, tea, green, sit and ship by Dvortygirl, CC BY-SA 3.0; fish by Dvortygirl, public domain. Other words use your browser’s English voice.

Word sources: see · tea · green · sit · fish · ship

Free practice

01 / PREPARE YOUR READING

What will you say today?

Your practice phrase or text

Listen to your rhythm, your pauses and the words you want to say more clearly. Try again as often as you like.

Free practice · this version does not assess or score your pronunciation.

02 / SPEAK AND LISTEN

Your microphone. Your moment.

00:00

Your microphone turns on only when you ask.

Your recording stays in this tab. It is not uploaded to Bristol or another service. Download it before leaving; it is not saved automatically.

03 / TRY AGAIN

Listen with purpose.

Are the words you want to highlight clear?
Do your pauses help express your idea?
Choose one phrase, make an adjustment, and record it again.