English Listening Trainer

1. Pick a voice and speed

Train your ear on many accents. The slowest setting is friendliest; speed up as you improve.

Provider

Voice

Speed (negative = slower)

-10%

Select a lesson

No lesson selected yet.

Transcript (hide by default)

2. Dictation drill

Hide the transcript. Listen, speak what you heard, then compare.

3. AI coach (checking...)

Once you have a comparison above, ask the coach to explain the gaps or generate fresh drills.

Shadowing: stream your voice

Pick a lesson on the Listening tab, then return here and play it. As it plays, repeat out loud. Your mic transcripts below in real time.

Reading mode

Display

Topic filter

Select a text

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Exam simulator

Dynamic, deduplicated questions in the style of UPC placement and TOEFL iBT. Each category has its own pool. Listening is a separate category; you can include it or not when generating a full exam.

How to use this app

The point of this tool is ear training. Reading is here for reinforcement, not the goal.

Pick a voice from a new accent (US, UK, AU, IN, IE). Train the sound of the language, not your own accent.
Listen without looking at the transcript. Press Play. Then click Record and repeat what you heard. Compare.
Slow it down when a sound is new. Then speed it up. The bird's-eye view of fluent speech emerges at +20%.
Use Cloze mode in Reading to confirm you actually understood the words, not just heard them.
Try Shadowing: play a sentence, repeat in real time. The transcript underneath tells you what your accent produced - that is the gap to close.

Backend: FastAPI - faster-whisper (local) - edge-tts (free Microsoft voices) - WebSocket streaming.

English Listening Trainer ear training first, reading second