English Pronunciation Checker: Read Aloud, See What Was Understood

What the tool measures

Your browser’s speech recogniser writes down what it heard. The tool lines that up against the sentence, word by word, using several of the recogniser’s guesses and keeping the one that fits best. The score is the share of words it wrote down as you intended.

Numbers, capital letters and punctuation are ignored, so "33" counts as "thirty three". Words that sound identical ("for" and "four") and UK/US spellings ("colour" and "color") are not counted against you.

What it does not measure

• It is not a phonetic or accent assessment. A recogniser can understand a word said with any accent, and it can also guess a word correctly from context even when the sound was off.
• It does not grade stress, rhythm or intonation directly. Those only show up when they make a word harder to recognise.
• Scores vary between browsers, microphones and rooms. Compare your attempts on the same device.
• Curious how your accent comes across instead? Try the Accent Detector, the Indian Accent Test, the American Accent Test or the British Accent Test.

Where your audio goes

Edesy never receives your voice. Recognition is done by your browser: in Chrome, the browser sends the audio to Google’s speech service, and Edge and Safari use their own vendors’ services. Firefox has no speech recognition, so the checker cannot record there.

Related practice

• For pace, filler words and overall fluency in a longer answer, use the Spoken English Test.
• To see live transcription of anything you say, try the Speech to Text demo.