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Using the browser's speech recognizer as a pronunciation judge

Pronunciation scoring APIs charge per request and want your audio on their servers. We teach spoken English to learners in India, mostly on phones, and we wanted a free test that costs us nothing to run. So we let the browser's speech recognizer play the listener. The idea: minimal pairs Vest and w…

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  1. 2026-11-07 12:20 · DEV Community — AI
    Using the browser's speech recognizer as a pronunciation judge

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