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Say it out loud. Sharpen the thought. Land the words.

Pick something you actually have to say this week: a lesson, an exam answer, an interview, an idea you can't quite land yet. Say it here. You get back how you sounded and what you actually said, with every line attached to the second that produced it. And if you teach: upload your syllabus, and it becomes guided practice your class joins with a code.

For you · the Studio Practise out loud: interviews. Eight rooms, a report every time.

Practise on your own

For classrooms Turn a syllabus into guided practice, or join the class your teacher set up.

I teach: upload a syllabus I'm a student: join with a code

See what it measures

Free to try · 30 minutes on us · nothing to install · English for now

01 · the Studio

Eight rooms. One of them is about today.

A lesson you're teaching tomorrow. An exam that gets answered out loud. An interview on Thursday. The English you're still finding your feet in. Or your own material: a chapter, a brief, a link, a file, all turned into questions you have to answer without your notes in front of you.

  • teachers
  • students
  • professionals
  • English learners
  • anyone who has to say it out loud
  1. 01 Interview Practice A job, a promotion, a grad-school panel. Answer real questions out loud, or paste the ad and get questions from it.
  2. 02 Critical Thinking Spot the fallacy, test the assumption, argue the side you don't hold.
  3. 03 Practice Anything Bring your own material, a chapter, a lesson plan, a paper, a link, and get asked about that.
  4. 04 English Practice Speak at length: describe, narrate, role-play, persuade. Fluency is the point.
  5. 05 Self-Assessment Reflect out loud on strengths, patterns and the blind spots you already suspect.
  6. 06 Reflective Questionnaire Situational questions, answered aloud instead of ticked in a box.
  7. 07 Curiosity Find the edge of what you know, and work there for ten minutes.
  8. 08 Ikigai & Purpose What you love, what you're good at, what others need, what you'd be paid for.
Record it, or talk it through
Every room runs both ways: record your answers alone, or hold a live conversation with a partner that asks the follow-up you were hoping to avoid.
Choose a focus first
Say what you want to work on and the session is built around it, rather than handing you the same fixed script as everyone else.
Bring your own material
Paste a text, a link or a job ad, or upload a file. The questions come out of it.
Five minutes, or twenty
A session is as long as you have. A short one is still measured and still counts toward your trend.

Rooms named for IQ, EQ or psychometrics describe the style of exercise: practice, scored to help you improve, never a validated or clinical test.

02 · how you sound

Ten things about your voice nobody ever tells you.

How fast you went and where you sped up. The pauses you took, and the ones you skipped. How far your pitch travelled and how steady it held. Your ear registers all of this in someone else and never names it. Here they have names:

  • speaking speed
  • pauses
  • pitch
  • pitch movement
  • pitch range
  • loudness & its changes
  • pitch steadiness
  • volume steadiness
  • clearness of tone
  • liveliness
Seven seconds of speech, opened up. Higher on the chart is a higher note; the shaded bands are real silences. Breath groups come from the audio; word spacing inside a group is proportional. sample

Every reading is set against your own earlier sessions, not a population average you were never part of.

03 · what you said

And what your words were doing while you spoke.

hedged reasoning revised

  • SubstanceWhether there was something in the answer, or only around it.
  • StructureWhether it had a shape a listener could follow to the end.
  • RelevanceWhether you answered the question you were actually asked.
  • Claim supportWhether what you asserted arrived with anything behind it.
  • ConsistencyWhether your third answer still agrees with your first.
  • DevelopmentWhether the session went somewhere, or circled the runway.

Delivery (clarity, confidence, pacing, conciseness) is scored the same way in every room, so any two sessions can be compared. The six content signals above are the part that changes: each room judges what matters for its kind of speaking.

04 · both halves

Neither half means much on its own.

A confident voice saying nothing. A good answer nobody could follow. Put the two together and you have something you can actually change before Thursday.

The same seven seconds. Now it means something.

05 · the receipts

Nothing here is a vibe.

Every line written about you resolves to the moment that produced it. Open it and you're at the exact words, timestamped. If it's wrong, say so, and it changes.

06 · over time

Scored, session by session. Read as a trajectory.

Yes, things get scored: honestly, and against your own history rather than a population average. But a single number is the least interesting thing here: every measure gets its own line across your sessions, so what you are looking at is movement, and every session leaves a report you can download and keep. A belief retires when you stop saying it, not when you announce you've changed your mind. This one held for five months.

Twelve conversations, seven months and one belief that stopped being said

March 4 select a conversation

Twelve real recordings, really measured. The only invention is that they came from one person's life.

07 · your memory

It remembers what you said in March.

Sessions stack up into a picture of how you think and what you keep returning to. You can ask it questions: what have I changed my mind about, what do I keep hedging on. The answer comes back with your own words still attached to it.

March

"I do my best work the night before. The pressure is what focuses me."

last week

"There isn't enough night left before this deadline for what the work actually needs. Starting has to happen when the brief lands."

Both can't hold. Which one moved?

08 · for classrooms

Your syllabus, turned into practice.

Upload the syllabus you actually teach from: a PDF, a photo of it, plain text, or just paste it in. It comes back as a topic tree you can check line by line: your topics, your subtopics, the syllabus's own learning points, nothing invented. Then make a class and read out an eight-letter code. That code is the whole enrolment process.

Any format that's on your desk
PDF, photo, text, markdown, or paste. If it's a Word file, export it as a PDF first; that's the one we'll ask you to convert.
Yours, or your class's, never anyone else's
What you upload is stored for you or for your class alone. You confirm you have the right to use it, and that confirmation is kept with the upload.
A review engine underneath
Every topic becomes recallable practice points on a spaced-review schedule that knows when the exam is, built and already running for our first student.
Practice that starts from your wording
Open any subtopic and work through it in a typed session: the tutor quotes your syllabus's own points, asks before it teaches, and keeps an honest score. Voice sessions on uploads are the piece still coming.

I teach: upload a syllabus I'm a student: join my class

09 · for teams

Your next pitch, rehearsed like it counts.

A funding pitch, a board update, a client call, the interview you're running rather than sitting. Practise it out loud the day before, record it or talk it through with a partner that pushes back, and walk in with a report instead of a feeling: how you sounded, what you actually said, and what to change.

Both chairs of an interview
Prepare for the panel, or practise running one. Paste the role and the questions come out of it, answered out loud, scored the same way every time.
Bring the real material
The deck notes, the brief, the one-pager. Questions come from your material, not from a script everyone else gets.
A report you can share
Every session ends in a downloadable report: delivery and content, with every claim linked to the second that produced it.
Progress against yourself
Session by session you get trend lines, not a one-off score, set against your own history, never a population average.

Practise before it counts

10 · try it

Hear it on someone else first.

Three real recordings, run through the real thing. Every number under them is genuine output; nothing here is illustrative.

Five measures shown. A session reports considerably more, and sets each one against your own history.

See it after twelve sessions One recording tells you how you sounded this morning. Twelve tells you what you keep doing, what you dropped, and where you disagree with yourself. Open your dashboard

Little Signals is open.

Sign in with Google and pick your door: practise on your own, or set up your class. Nothing to install, nothing to configure, no card.

Practise on your own Open Classroom

  • Eight rooms, each with its own focus step
  • Record it, or talk it through live
  • Your material, or ours
  • Teachers: a syllabus in, a class code out
  • A downloadable report every time
  • Every claim linked to the second you said it
  • Correct, hide or delete any of it

You own everything it records, and English is the only language it works in so far.

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