ELSA Speak Reviews

I loved the automated training programs. I've done them all and would like to have more like those (with the 7 steps & test in the end)

I would love to see how to stress and do intonation everywhere like I do have feedback on the pronunciation. I'd also love to have feedback on the stress / intonation

It helps with my pronunciation and speaking.

Sometimes the software does not recognize the voice or is not clear about why your pronunciation is wrong. I need to use it to improve my performance, but I hate the kind of feedback.

I like the content, variety of topics. My level was intermediate when I had started this app. Now I can pronounce like 90% as native speaker.

Only price is a bit expensive for me. Other things are great

* It gives a good feedback about how your accent sounds and what do you need to improve in your accent
* It gives instructions about how to create those sounds (e. g. relax your lips, drop your jaw etc.)

* As said, the reminders didn't work well
* I wish there was a lessson that focuses and elaborates more on the IPA showed on the feedback
* Sometimes the app waits a few seconds to download the lesson or check for updates, not sure if it's my internet or something but it kinds of annoying

1) Not dependent on tutor.
2) Ease and flexibility of use.
3) Quality of software interface.

Short duration packages shall be cheaper

Help me with pronunciation and you ever learn a new word

You learn how to speak, you learn how to listen

The intonation was the most impactful because when I'm talking in English, I don't want to sound like a robot. The product was straightforward to use; it does by itself.
Elsa helped me a lot; integration with my existing business was easy.

This is something I couldn't evaluate right now because I'm delighted till now.

Aspects of English that you need to understand to compare your speech with native speakers and tools for recognition

Sometimes it is very hard to achieve 80% and more for long sentences to compare with native speakers

In 20 min daily I can improve my English on an easy and interesting way

Freezing too often, sometimes I don't know what should I pronounce better. Big problem is the poor main dashboard, hard to monitor the achievement and development

This is the first app I tried that used AI to learn the language

Somehow the app not stable even though my internet connection didn't mess

I like namely pronunciation skill, word stress, listening game.

I do not like speaking game and reading of long sentences. I find it useful, doing the recommended lesson daily.

The most important function of this app for me is the correct recognition of sounds and the evaluation of how correctly they are pronounced (with recommendations for improvement). Of the apps I've tried, Elsa is the one that recognizes sounds correctly.

Unfortunately, sometimes there are still problems with sound recognition. So you can continue to improve the engine responsible for speech recognition.
Sometimes it is not clear what exactly is wrong in the pronunciation (not enough comments, how exactly to correct the pronunciation of the sound, how the language should be positioned, etc.) The app has added videos from Rachel's English channel, but sometimes it is not enough.

ELSA provides you real-time feedback on your pronunciation and teaches you how to fix whatever is inadequate. It’s is just perfect.

The app is a bit inflexible when it comes to accents — native speaker accents — and also connected speech. Sometimes in spoken English some Ts are dropped for example. But if you drop them while reproducing a dialogue, ELSA will mark you for it. Therefore, it needs room to foresee variation of native speech.

This app helps me a lot to improve my speaking skills.

This app is a bit slow to open this app on my iPhone.

I can learn what sounds I am making. When I say it, I believe I pronounce a certain syllable or a vowel. Elsa shows me what it actually sounds like.
The short lesson lengths are very helpful to keep using the app daily.
The example sentences and pronunciations are of quality.

To program structure is hard to understand. I think there are three different systems; the one provided me after test, the one with the planets, then 5 lessons a day recommendation.

I like that it’s helping me to work on my weak spots

It’s not very intuitive. It took me some time to figure how to proceed to the bendy topic.

It’s easy to use and I like the feedback.

Sometimes it just stops, it doesn't work anymore and you have to restart the whole session.

Live chatting with speakers more features to help the self learner do more progress

Simple
Right on target
Help me to get improved

The ELSA API really helps teachers of English in Vietnamese schools and language centers to make the pronunciation and speaking teaching easy and standardized.

It is still a bit on the expensive side for teachers and students in a low mi-income country like Vietnam.

Flexible, effective to improve skills

Failed to recognize student 's speech correctly

I used only the trial version. It was so productive and useful . Although I have tried a lot to get the full version of the software unfortunately I couldn't reach it because of financial problem in our country.

thanks to financial problem, I couldn't access to upgrade of your valuable software in our region.

Multiple options for learning: vocabulary, listening, speaking. I can know where I need to improve on pronunciation.

Sometimes the speed of evaluation of my voice is quite slow. It is not stable and freezed. I have to quit the application and access again.

I see my progress and I can choose different skills to practice. It also has variety of topics.

Sometimes doesn’t detect pronunciation properly
I passed a course and didn’t get the certification
After a month it didn’t develop me an special course as it did on free trial

The word and sentence pronunciation percentage match with native speaker helps me to gauge where I stand and also slow motion speaker option helps me to get every bit clear.

Not sure if i see any, all the features are very helpful.