Everything Parrot does

Features

Like a pronunciation check, but for whole sentences: read what you actually need to say, and see exactly which words to work on.

A verdict for every word

Words a listener would hear as something else turn red, with what was heard. Words that were close but not quite turn amber. Mark a name once, and it never counts as misheard.

A sentence with beautiful marked amber and things marked red and tagged heard sinks, above a waveform of the take with the same stretches in amber and red.

How it should sound

Click a word to see it spelled the way it sounds, with its stress and IPA, and hear it alone or slowed down.

The word card for things: sounds like THINGZ, IPA θɪŋz, then its sounds th, i, ng and s as you said them, th marked, with a tip on how to say th.

Yours, then the right one

Play your take with each word lit as you said it, or a single word cut from it, followed by the correct reading.

The record button with Mine and Mine, then correct beside it.

Practise one word

Each sound of a word is marked as you said it: green, amber or red, half green when it was right but not sure, with a tip on how to make the weakest. Then record just that word, as often as you like, without touching the sentence's score.

Word practice for things after three tries of the word alone: 92% sound match, every sound green, and the tries at 92, 81 and 64 percent.

Listen at your speed

Hear each part read at full speed or slowed to 0.75 or 0.6, with every word lit as it is spoken.

The Listen button with the speeds 0.6, 0.75 and 1 times.

Practise any text

Paste an interview answer, a talk, a toast. Practise it whole, sentence by sentence, or in short parts cut at commas. Fix its words at any time: the tries of each part you change are scored again from their recordings.

The new-text box with a wedding toast pasted in, and the choice to practise it whole, in 4 sentences or in 6 short parts.

All your texts, in one place

Every text you paste is kept with its score, and opens where you left off. Search them, rename them, switch in a click.

The list of texts: The northern lights at 94%, Introducing yourself at 91%, and A weather report, not practised yet.

Just talk

Tell a story or answer an interview question, with nothing to read, for up to 30 minutes, or pick a prompt for interviews, small talk or presentations. Parrot writes down what you say as you talk, so it's ready moments after you stop, and shows how each word came out, with your pace and every pause of over a second. Fix a word it misheard, then keep the talk as a text to practise, each sentence with its first try cut from the talk. A talk not kept when Parrot quits or crashes is offered again the next time.

What Parrot heard of a talk: Hi, I'm Alex, with Alex underlined as a name, a pause of 1.4 seconds marked after three years ago, really marked amber, and the score 96% clear at 130 words a minute.

See yourself improve

Every try is kept: watch a sentence go from 82% to 94%, and your pace settle at a natural 140 to 165 words a minute. Pauses of over a second are marked between the words.

The score ring at 94% clear, 149 words a minute, a natural pace, 1 misheard and 1 sounded off, plus 6 since the try before, above a chart of tries at 82, 88 and 94.

Read along while you record

The microphone level shows you are heard, and tips remind you of the words that tripped you up last time.

While you read: three tips, one naming the word things that was misheard last time, and the input level of the microphone.

Light and dark

Follows your system’s appearance, or pick one. Easy on the eyes for a late practice before a big day.

The score and the word card for things in dark mode.

On-device and private

The AI models run on your computer (Whisper for speech recognition, wav2vec2 for the sound scores), offline once they are downloaded. There's no account and nothing is uploaded: your texts and recordings are plain files in a folder you can open, back up or delete. (A system voice marked “online” in Settings sends the text it reads, never your recordings, to its provider.)

No accountOpen it and start
No uploadRecordings stay on disk
Your filesPlain files you can keep

Free, open source, and on your device.