Say It: English Pronunciation
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Free | Phona Ltd | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Search and listen to 30,000 model recordings of British English and 40,000 American English words, taken from our world-famous Oxford University Press dictionaries. Learn key sounds to improve your pronunciation, fluency and confidence.
The app is free to try with 100 sample words, 4 tests and 12 phonetic sounds. Add more content with your choice of in-app purchases, including tests and sound chart from Oxford’s English File course. Users of the original version of Say It will be given access to their current content, plus additional words and features when they update. Their personal word list will be transferred to My Words.
Record yourself saying each word and then compare your pronunciation to the Oxford model recording. Instant, personalised audio-visual feedback will help you identify precisely what you need to improve. Share your recording and sound wave with a friend or teacher directly from the app.
Say It was the 2016 Winner of the English-Speaking Union President's Award for New Technology in ELT.
- Listen to the individual sounds in each word with interactive phonetic spelling
- Identify difficult sections in each word by slowing down your recording – just touch and drag
- Discover where you need to improve by comparing your sound wave and stress marker against the model example
- Keep track of your progress, save recordings to your My Words list and add a rating
- Test yourself across 3 levels or tap shuffle to try any word in the dictionary
- Use it on your own, with friends, or in class with your teacher
If you are a visual learner…
Improve your pronunciation using the English File sound chart. It’s designed to help you connect tricky sounds to words and images, making learning easier. Tap an illustration to hear individual sounds from the phonetic alphabet and hear how it is pronounced as part of a word.
Reviews
Don't waste your money
internettime
I've installed it on iPad 2, 3, iPhone 5S and it doesn't work well on any of them. You can't hear your audio recordings nor compare to the model pronunciation. It's boring, it's an enourmous list of alphabetically ordered words.
Looks interesting
Alex Linguist
I have installed this app on my iPhone 6 plus and iPad 3. It works as advertised, with all the features fully functional (record your pronunciation and compare etc.).
Yet another abysmal app from Oxford University Press
@rchenemy
Crashes on launch on iPad 2 and iPhone 4S running iOS 8.1.1. Extremely disappointed.
It doesn’t work.
alex13july
When you put “Oxford University Press” label on something and an equal price tag - you should expect a certain quality. I use “Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary” and it’s fantastic. And this app referred me to “Say It”, which I bought even without consideration… So the application offers you single words that you have to record and then compare your recording with theirs. The words are given without any context, without any indication of the accent used, gender, etc. Just single words. OK, I recorded my first word. Clicked “play” - nothing. Tried to record another. Same thing… They call it “Pronunciation from Oxford”. Thank you. Now I’m gonna think twice.
I can't hear my recorded voice.
Eastern on Sofa
It turns my voice to a high pitched sound. Useless until update. (iPad mini 2)
can not look up a word
.ustc.
can not look up a word , my device is iPad Pro 9.7inch, iOS 10.3.1..... please fix it.ಠ_ಠ
useless app
SimonXie
it just ask you to purchase the in app purchase，but can't find any word or use it anyway
Why nothing shows up?
NZ_kiwi
There is nothing showing up in my iPad (word list and chart), although it says successfully restores my purchase. It is useless now, pretty frustrated!
