Pronunciation checker: find the exact words you get wrong

A pronunciation checker listens to you read something, compares what it heard with what you meant to say, and tells you where the two differ. The useful ones stop there and explain the difference. The frustrating ones give you a percentage and leave you guessing.

What a good result looks like

After you read a sentence, you should be able to answer three questions without thinking:

1. Which words were off? Not “78% accurate” — the actual words, marked in the sentence.
2. What did the listener hear instead? If you said “tree” when you meant “three”, that tells you the th became a t. That is the whole diagnosis.
3. What should I physically do differently? “Put the tip of your tongue between your teeth and blow air” is a fix. “Improve your fluency” is not.

Then you need a model to copy — slowly, one word at a time — and a way to try again straight away.

How to check your pronunciation in 60 seconds

1. Pick a sentence you will actually say this week: your job intro, a coffee order, the first line of a presentation.
2. Press record and read it at your normal speed. Do not slow down for the machine — you want to hear how you really sound.
3. Look at the flagged words. Read the “heard as” line: it tells you which sound slipped.
4. Play the slow model for each flagged word, copy it three times out loud, then re-record the whole sentence.

How SayRight listens (and its limits)

SayRight uses your browser’s speech recognition to transcribe what you said, then an AI coach lines that transcript up against your sentence word by word and writes a fix for each word that came out differently. That approach is honest about what it is: if a native-speaker listening system can’t recognise a word, a real listener may struggle too. It is less good at tiny accent details that do not change the word — for those, the slow model and your own recording are the best tools.

Tips that make any checker more useful

• Use a quiet room and keep the phone or laptop about an arm’s length away.
• Check whole sentences, not single words. Most real problems are stress and linking between words.
• Keep a short list of your repeat offenders (for example “th”, “v/w”, final “-ed”). Practise those sounds in new sentences.