Is TonePerfect the Michigan State “Tone Perfect” database?
No. TonePerfect (toneperfect.app) is an independent pronunciation app and is not affiliated with “Tone Perfect: Multimodal Database for Mandarin Chinese”, the research dataset of Mandarin syllables published by Michigan State University at tone.lib.msu.edu.
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The two share a name and nothing else. The Michigan State project is an audio corpus of Mandarin Chinese syllables for researchers. TonePerfect is a commercial learning app that records you and scores your pronunciation in 8 languages.
If you are looking for the research database, go to tone.lib.msu.edu. If you want your own Mandarin tones checked, use the free tests below.
Which one you are looking for
- Tone Perfect: Multimodal Database for Mandarin Chinese: a Michigan State University research dataset of Mandarin syllable recordings, at tone.lib.msu.edu.
- TonePerfect: a pronunciation app for iOS, Android and the web, at toneperfect.app. It scores the tone of each syllable you say, and your pronunciation in 8 languages.