Hi everyone, you know me, I'm Chris from IELTS daily, and I have a special video for you today because I want to share something that made me go, wow.
You know there were just those days where something makes you think differently and approach a task differently.
Well, I was contacted by a pronunciation company called "Elsa", and they've developed an app called Elsa speak
It's been downloaded over 40 million times.
And what I want to show you today is how accurate this app is. Because at the very beginning, I said to the team at Elsa you know artificial intelligence is great.
But I don't think it's very accurate, and they said to me, "well, Chris, you just got to give it a try".
So, I downloaded it, and let's see what the results were.
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Now, obviously, it's going to be really helpful if you download the app so that you can follow along with me.
Um, you can download it from the Google Play or the Apple iOS store.
I'm just going to open it now on my phone and you'll see that it's really easy to follow.
The layout is super kind of user-friendly. It has different sections, so you can do daily practice.
You could do some, topic-specific vocabulary practice. Really depends on what your requirements are.
As I said, I'm going to try and trick the app I want to pretend like I'm making a mistake to see if the app can pick that up.
I think that's a really good way to see the quality of the app. So we're going to open up on your phone the practice daily lessons.
And lesson one is about the difference between the sounds /v/ and /b/. V and b. Two sounds that sound the same or sound very similar but actually are different.
So, what we're going to do is practice with the app, and I'm gonna speak incorrectly.
So in the, uh, app, it says; In this lesson, you practice to pronounce phrases. Listen and repeat what Elsa says.
You will get detailed feedback for the underlying sounds for each phrase. Interesting let's start.
This is the best vest.
Now you notice that it uses the words "best" and "vest".
I'm gonna try and trick it and I'm gonna switch those two sounds round and I'm actually going to say; This is the vest best.
Let's see whether the app can pick that up. This is the vest best
Wow, it's noticed that I have a problem with the sound /v/. It's focusing on that /v/ sound.
I'm actually saying /b/, so the app is picking it up, which is really marvelous.
Let's try again but a little bit faster. This is the vest best.
Almost correct. It's noticing that I'm still struggling with that sound.
Let's try it a third time, but I'll say correctly this time.
This is the best vest.
Amazing, excellent. Now I've done this with a number of different exercises,
and I can assure you that it really does pick up some of those mistakes that I make when I intentionally try to make those mistakes.
If we look at the rest of the app you can see that there are other things that you can do for example, you can do an improve pronunciation section and it will give you things to do each day.
Amazing, then you can also study by topics, all sorts of different topics.
And remember that these topics could be really useful in your IELTS test, and I'll tell you that the IELTS, um, there are some IELTS vocabulary sections within the Elsa test.
So really, really, really spend some time focusing on those because twenty-five percent of your IELTS speaking mark comes from pronunciation.
That's it, I thought I'd share a really interesting new app with you.
What's more kind of exciting is that Elsa have said that any IELTS daily students who download this app you get free content, but there is some option to unlock more content.
They are offering wait for it, 85% discount, 85% discount on a lifetime membership.
Click the link in the description below or, um, follow us on Instagram or on, on YouTube, and we'll post the link on there too.
Make sure you go and download this app it's a really useful tool for pronunciation.
I'm Chris from IELTS daily thanks for watching, and I'll see you soon.
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