SpeakBetter.AI

Pronunciation feedback designed for the Spanish mouth.

IPA-level phonetic analysis trained on the exact errors Spanish speakers make in English — th/d substitution, vowel reduction, lexical stress, and false cognates that change meaning.

SpeakBetter — “thrombosis”
thrombosis
/θrɒmˈbəʊ.sɪs/
Native speaker/θ/
You/d/ ← substituted
/θ/ substituted with /d/. This is the most common Spanish→English interference. Drill: 30-second tongue-position repetition for “think”, “through”, “thrombosis”.
The accent tax

It's not your English. It's six sounds.

Most Spanish speakers don't have a vocabulary problem — they have a phonetics problem. Six recurring patterns (th/d, ʃ/tʃ, vowel reduction, primary stress, voicing, /h/) account for ~80% of the moments where listeners flag your English as non-native. Generic apps don't isolate them. Tutors can't catch them at the speed you speak.

SpeakBetter.AI was built to find them in milliseconds.

How it works

From sound to fix in under a second.

1

Speak any phrase

Read a medical sentence or improvise — clinical, conversational, or conference register.

2

Phonetic analysis

Whisper-large-v3 + a custom Spanish-medical phoneme model breaks your speech into IPA tokens.

3

Error isolation

Each mispronunciation is flagged at the phoneme — not just the word — with the specific Spanish-interference rule that caused it.

4

Targeted drill

A 30-second drill tuned to that exact phoneme pattern, queued for your next session.

Capabilities

Tuned to the patterns Spanish speakers actually struggle with.

IPA-level feedback

Phoneme-by-phoneme transcription so you can see exactly which sound deviated.

Native-speaker overlay

Your waveform and pitch contour compared side-by-side with a native medical English speaker.

Spanish error library

Hundreds of documented Spanish-to-English interference patterns — th/d, ʃ/tʃ, vowel hiatus.

False-cognate detection

Catches constipation/constipación, embarrassed/embarazada, intoxicated/intoxicado before they reach a patient.

Lexical-stress radar

ar·RHYTH·mi·a, not ar·rhyth·MI·a. Stress errors are flagged with the corrected pattern visible.

Connected-speech rules

Linking, elision, weak forms — the rules that turn book English into spoken English.

Phoneme heat map

A visual map of which sounds you nail and which need work, refreshed every session.

Listen-back coaching

Hear yourself, hear the native, then re-record. Three loops per drill, fully accessible.

Accuracy trend

Track accuracy per phoneme over weeks. See th-substitution drop from 38% to under 5%.

The difference

Generic pronunciation tools vs. SpeakBetter.AI.

Generic tools

What you get today

  • Word-level scoring (correct / incorrect)
  • No isolation of which phoneme actually slipped
  • Training set built for general English learners
  • Same drills regardless of L1 (Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic — all the same)
  • Can't tell you why the error happens
  • Medical vocabulary not in scope
With SpeakBetter.AI

What you get instead

  • Phoneme-level scoring with IPA transcription
  • Exact phoneme isolated, error class named (e.g. /θ/ → /d/)
  • Trained on Spanish-medical corpora specifically
  • Drills target your L1 interference patterns
  • Each error linked to the underlying L1 phonotactic rule
  • Full medical vocabulary at the IPA level

Hear yourself the way they hear you.

14-day free trial. Unlimited pronunciation checks from day one.