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by anadalakra 1y ago
Not yet - this was our first technical blog post. You can check out the BoldVoice app and test out the sound-level feedback yourself. Or watch this app walkthrough video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sv5K4Z9P4c
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by anadalakra 1y ago
As someone who took English classes for years growing up, I wish that were the case. In fact, most teachers don't really know how to teach pronunciation. Also, in a typical group class setting, it's challenging to give each studen
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by anadalakra 1y ago
Native speakers are less helpful at this than you might think. Speech coaches are absolutely the way to go, but they're outside the price range for most people ($200+/hr for a good coach). BoldVoice gives coach-level feedback and
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by anadalakra 1y ago
"If Victor wanted to move beyond this point, the sound-by-sound phonetic analysis available in the BoldVoice app would allow him to understand the patterns in pronunciation and stress that contribute to Eliza’s accent and teach him how
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by anadalakra 1y ago
If you're still actively using the app, the voice will be retained and processed so that you can receive instant feedback, and also so that you receive additional personalized practice items and video lessons based on your speech need
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by anadalakra 1y ago
You can reach out and request your data to be deleted at any time.
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by anadalakra 2y ago
Thanks for checking it out! We're 100% in on English for now, but some day!
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by anadalakra 2y ago
Gotcha, totally fair to be discerning with your data these days.
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by anadalakra 2y ago
Hi, founder here! We're a YC-funded education app with over 1 million downloads, currently #7 on the Education chart of the App Store. The goal of the accent oracle tool is to help more non-native English speakers find out about BoldVo
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by anadalakra 2y ago
Thanks - we're aware! There's also a concept of a general American accent. Since the app is for non-native English speakers, a general American accent is the goal more so than a regional accent. We built the app together with prof
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by anadalakra 2y ago
BoldVoice.com/privacy
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by anadalakra 2y ago
Conspiracy theories are fun! But we're a language learning app (YC s21). We help non native English speakers to work on their accents so they can speak English confidently. The accent oracle is a marketing tool for us to get in front o
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by anadalakra 2y ago
Nice suggestion! BoldVoice focuses on helping non-native English speakers to learn the American accent, so we tailored the accent oracle to non-native accents specifically.
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by anadalakra 2y ago
Fun to see this in the wild! I'm one of the co-founders of BoldVoice, AMA :) p.s. I'm Albanian and it guesses either Albanian or English for me, sometimes randomly Spanish.
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by anadalakra 2y ago
Not true - from the makers :)
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by anadalakra 3y ago
Check out BoldVoice (YC S21) - I'm biased as a cofounder :) We built this for immigrants who want to improve their spoken English, with a focus on pronunciation. You will get videos from speech/accent coaches + feedback from AI as
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by anadalakra 3y ago
There are some rules in English pronunciation, but there are a ton of exceptions and inconsistencies. To give you an example of a reliable rule: when a plural word ends in a vowel or a voiced consonant, the "s" is pronounced as
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by anadalakra 3y ago
This is 100% correct. Muscles that aren't used in your mouth/articulators (because your native language doesn't require them) atrophy over time. It is possible to strengthen these muscles with isolated practice -- on BoldVoic
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by anadalakra 3y ago
Oops, that's literally the name of one of our lessons "Practice your consonant skills" hence the awkward string, but I see what you mean. We'll look into handling those more elegantly because I agree, for English learner
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by anadalakra 3y ago
Oh, you're right! Fixed it, thanks!
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by anadalakra 3y ago
Haha, you'd be surprised how many Bostonians we have on our app exactly for this, although we made this for ESL speakers...
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by anadalakra 3y ago
Yep, exactly! That's called a "flap T/D" in linguistics.
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by anadalakra 3y ago
I'm based in the US, where it's spelled without the "u". Quite a few examples of this spelling difference - humo(u)r, behavio(u)r etc. Oh and "spelt" is "spelled". Isn't English fun! :)
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by anadalakra 3y ago
Hey, thanks for your interest in checking out the app :) Weird that you don't see the Pricing info on that page - did you tap "Pricing" at the top bar, and then tap the first question "How much does BoldVoice cost?"
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by anadalakra 3y ago
Thanks! For now, we're laser-focused on English since it's the language that 1 billion people are learning (as non-native speakers). But we'd love to add more languages in the future, stay tuned!
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by anadalakra 3y ago
As a non-native English speaker, the "randomness" of English pronunciation has been a source of frustration for me for many years. I realized there are two types of issues: 1. Some sounds in English don't exist in other langu
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by anadalakra 5y ago
That's an interesting use case that we could potentially explore down the line, thanks for sharing! Right now, we're focusing on non-native English speakers, as it's a problem that we personally understand best -- as well as
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by anadalakra 5y ago
Hey there, thanks for checking us out! The error that you pointed out has been fixed, and now the sentence matches the coach's sample -- feel free to double check this on the app. Both "part of" and "a part of" are
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by anadalakra 5y ago
We’re Anada and Ilya, the co-founders of BoldVoice ( https://www.boldvoice.com/ ). BoldVoice is an accent coaching app that helps non-native speakers learn and practice the standard American accent. As immigrants to the US, w