Apps
Language apps grade the word.
They flash red and move on. They can't tell you the reason the word failed is that your /v/ is landing as a /w/, and that it happens in every word you say.
In development/ˈæk.sənt ˈlɛs.ənz/
You don't need
a new accent.
You need to be understood.
Accent Lessons is an AI coach that listens to your real speech, isolates the handful of sounds actually costing you clarity, and drills them with feedback on every attempt, until people stop asking you to repeat yourself.
One email when the beta opens. Nothing else, ever.
Session 04 / fricativeslistening
You said
“I think we should ship it”
/ˈtɪŋk/ → target /ˈθɪŋk/
82clarity
- /θ/ threelands as /t/
- /v/ verylands as /w/
- /ɪ/ shipclear
Where we stand
This is not accent erasure. Keep your accent, it's yours and it carries where you're from. We're after the narrow thing that costs you: the specific sounds a listener can't resolve.
Coaches
Human coaches are the gold standard, and they're scarce.
Billed by the hour, booked out weeks ahead, and the feedback loop closes the moment the session ends. Most people get an hour a week, if that.
Reps
Accents move on reps, not insight.
Knowing which sound you get wrong changes nothing on its own. What changes it is hundreds of corrected attempts at that one sound. Nobody has the patience for that except a machine.
What we're building
Three steps
01
Speak for two minutes
Read a passage built to surface every English phoneme. No quiz, no score to game. Just a baseline of how you actually sound.
02
Get your sound map
Every phoneme, ranked by how much it costs a listener. Not an alphabetical report card, the four or five sounds doing the damage, in order.
03
Drill the ones that matter
Short daily sets on your specific sounds, with feedback on every single rep, in the moment. Difficulty tracks your progress so the work stays just past comfortable.
Who it's for
Anyone who has said it twice and still wasn't heard.
- Engineers who dread standup
- Clinicians whose patients ask them to repeat
- Sales reps losing the room on a cold call
- Grad students presenting to a committee
- Anyone whose name gets mangled back at them
- Actors chasing a specific target accent
Early access
We're building it now.
Come test it early.
Nothing is live yet. Leave an email and you'll be in the first group we hand it to, and we'll ask what you need it to do before we finish deciding.