What ummute listens for

Most ways to practice English drill the part you can write down — the words, the grammar, the spelling. ummute listens to the part you can’t: how you sound.

Prosody is the music under the words. Where your voice rises and falls, which syllable you lean on, how fast you move, where you breathe. It is what makes a question sound like a question and a statement sound certain. Get the words right and the prosody wrong, and a listener still hears something off.

So ummute does one thing. You speak; it listens closely; it shows you the shape of what you said — your pitch drawn as a line, your pace in words a minute, the places you rushed or flattened — and tells you, plainly, the one thing most worth mending. Then you say it again.

It is a quiet, serious tool. No points, no streaks, nothing to chase. Just your voice, looked at carefully, as often as you like.

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