ummute

Benefits

What changes when you practice

The precise shape of an English question

A question that genuinely asks rises at its final syllable. Drill it until the climb is automatic, and you stop being misheard as flat, or unsure of what you already know.

Stress that lands where you mean it

Lean on the wrong word and the sentence means something you didn’t intend. ummute shows you which syllable rang and which one should have, until the emphasis carries the meaning for you.

A pace a listener can follow

Around three-and-a-half syllables a second is where a native speaker tends to sit. See your own pace in plain numbers, and feel where you race past the point you were making.

Your own voice, played back

Hear it back the way a room hears it. It is the most useful thing you can do, and the hardest to do alone — the gap between how you think you sound and how you do.

The same sentence, six weeks apart

Every take is kept. You can set March against April and watch the pitch line that used to fall begin to climb where it should. Progress you can see, not a number you chase.