What can my students use at home to get pronunciation feedback?

Send students a link. The English pronunciation test is five words with a score each; the English sentence checker takes any sentence you are teaching, up to 120 characters, and scores every word and every sound. Students need a browser with a microphone, nothing else, and no account.

Free takes are limited per browser and per internet connection, so this works best as homework, at home. A whole class testing at once on school Wi-Fi counts as one connection and runs out after a few students.

The same exists for Spanish, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin, each scored against its own native reference.

The pronunciation test widget gives you copy-paste code for the five-word test in English or six other languages. Students see five words, a microphone button and a score for each word, and at the end the sound that came out weakest. Some site builders and LMS editors strip the microphone permission or block iframes; if yours does, link to the test page instead.

You create a school and one class per group on the teacher site; each class gets a join code. Students install the TonePerfect app, enter the code in the Practice tab and the homework appears. They record as often as they like for homework without a personal subscription. You see, per student and per class: practice days, scores, weakest tones and sounds, homework results and class ranking. You never see recordings or account details, and students consent when they join and can leave at any time.

It costs $2 per student per month (yearly: 10 months’ price), and the first month is free with no card. The teacher site is in Ukrainian, Russian and English, and there is a live demo with sample students. Details: TonePerfect for Schools.

TonePerfect is not intended for children under 13, and it is not designed for young learners: no picture lessons, no games, no reading levels. For teenagers it works as it does for adults.

For younger children, use tools made for them. Read Along by Google is free, as an Android app or on the web: a reading buddy gives children pronunciation help as they read aloud, and the app can run offline. Microsoft Reading Coach is free with a school Microsoft 365 account or a personal Microsoft account; it supports US English only and shows accuracy and words to practise after each reading session. Both are reading-aloud tools rather than pronunciation scorers, which is usually the right level for a young child.