四十四の音 · the forty-four sounds
a study of the mouth
in three movements
序 · prologue

A quiet
correction
of the mouth.

slaytheaccent hears every phoneme in what you say and lines it up against a native reference. What it returns is not a grade, but a map — of the five or six sounds that, when attended to, change everything.

Begin the study
three seconds · no card
beta · april MMXXVI
一 · 二 · 三

The method,
in three movements.

roku · record

Speak a phrase, once.

Three seconds. Your phone mic. Natural delivery — the voice-activity detector trims the silence so the specimen is clean.

chō · listen

Three models listen, carefully.

Wav2vec, Whisper, and Silero align what you said against the native reference. Every phoneme receives a mark — not a grade.

ma · refine

Return to the weakest sound.

The drill queue surfaces only what is worth your attention. You shadow the native, re-record, watch the mark move.

中 · the middle

Forty-four sounds.
Not all of them are yours to fix.

Most of the work is attending to five or six. The rest are already there. The drill queue surfaces only what matters.

p
b
t
d
k
g
f
v
θ
ð
s
z
ʃ
ʒ
h
m
n
ŋ
l
ɫ
ɹ
w
j
ɾ
i
ɪ
e
ɛ
æ
ʌ
ə
ɚ
u
ʊ
o
ɔ
ɑ
ɔɪ
ʧ
ʤ
The tongue is a student, patient if you are.
— a paraphrase, after Ladefoged
終 · coda

Begin,
quietly.

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