ELSA Speak
Pronunciation and accent coaching for English
The Four Mismatches · ELSA Speak
Fits on everything we could check
For a student in the United States, the country it was built for.
CurriculumNo exam claimed
It names no school exam, so this counts neither for nor against it.
LanguageFits
Teaches in the classroom languages of the United States.
- The maker lists 8 languages, including English
- Classrooms in the United States use: English
DeviceFits
Works on a laptop or tablet, what most students in the United States use.
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What it does
What the AI actually does — A proprietary speech-recognition model trained on accented English scores pronunciation at the phoneme level and gives targeted correction.
Why it was built — Help non-native speakers sound clearer and more confident in English by fixing pronunciation, which generic apps ignore.
Who built it
- Company
- ELSA Corp.
- Founders
- Vu Van · Xavier Anguera
- HQ / origin
- San Francisco, USA (engineering in Lisbon)
- Founded
- 2015
- Model
- B2C / B2B
- Languages
- English (for non-native speakers)
- Pricing
- Freemium subscription + B2B licensing
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Where it sits
ELSA Speak is on the Learning Tools Index, in language learning, built in United States.