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How good is your French accent?

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Re: How good is your French accent?

#4
Interesting, it looks like this is an app geared at accent reduction, which could be promising. I'll try it out.

Duolingo French elicits speech, but I fear that it is set so permissive as to hardly be helpful (I haven't dared to test feeding it nonsense or clearly incorrect pronunciations yet). There's a Czech-learning app I use that uses speech recognition to test the user's pronunciation, but the implementation is bad: it is fairly strict, and the speech recognition simply tries to interpret the speech (rather than gauging correctness), so it frequently misinterprets the user's utterance as another statement entirely. Which is frustrating and unhelpful.

Re: How good is your French accent?

#6
Very interesting, thanks for posting this to be able to check it out. Now I get to find out how far I've fallen since passing the Paris Chamber of Commerce non-native business French test. Reminds me that I haven't listened to any streaming French radio in too long, which was a trick I used to re-up my comprehension and vocab from time to time. Super chouette app!
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