It doesn't seem that complicated - you hear the sound and think you can repeat it, but the person you're talking to doesn't understand you.

(Remember that scene from Friends where Joey was trying to learn French?)

I m sure it would have been much easier for him with TonePerfet.

We often learn a language through vocabulary, grammar, conversation practice, and watching movies in a foreign language. And that s great! In an era of 1,000 translation apps, speaking a foreign language is incredibly valuable, beautiful, and inspiring.

Every language has at least one sound or combination of sounds that s very difficult to pronounce, and learning to pronounce it correctly is quite a challenge.

TonePerfect - your AI pronunciation coach 

It s a real, accessible product.

It solves a clear problem: helping learners practice pronunciation and spoken language.

It s evolving: its capabilities and potential audience have expanded over the past six months.

The project has a story the team can share with the community.

I first launched TonePerfect on February 18 with a focus on a problem I knew personally: learning Mandarin and struggling to understand what was wrong with my pronunciation.

Since then, the project has grown beyond Mandarin. I ve added French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German, Russian, and English, alongside AI conversations that let you practise speaking more freely.