Hey Product Hunt!
We built Your Best Accent to help you sound like a native speaker 🗣️🌍
As fellow language learners and tech enthusiasts, we (Sébastien and Kamil) have always struggled with one particular aspect of learning new languages: nailing the pronunciation. We'd spend hours repeating words and phrases, only to still sound unmistakably foreign. Sound familiar?
That frustration led us to create Your Best Accent, an app that uses AI to help you speak like a native.
The magic moment? When you hear "yourself" speaking your target language perfectly. It's incredibly motivating!
Why try Your Best Accent?
It's personal: Your own voice is your guide to perfect pronunciation.
It's flexible: Learn multiple languages and even specific dialects.
It's fun: Click on words to hear them, see translations, and track your progress.
As two programming nerds 🤓, we had a blast building this. We'd be thrilled if you gave it a try and let us know what you think. Does it help you feel more confident in your target language? Any features you'd love to see?
Kamil & Sébastien
Accent-obsessed founders of Your Best Accent
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I imagine the idea is that it is inherently easier for you to “mimic” your own voice compared to any other voice. I wonder is there is another psychological effect too. Curious to try this.
@steven_benner That's exactly our idea, and I think it's been validated. We got quite a few users who prefer this way much more than the traditional "repeat after some random native speaker"
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As a long-time language learner, this is so cool! Pronunciation is tough especially if you are using new muscles in your mouth, so this would be super helpful. Congrats and I am looking forward to see how it evolves!
Not sure if using a voice clone is the best way to learn pronunciation, wouldn't you get better results practicing with a native speaker instead, also curious if this can actually adapt to different dialects or just one standard version, thoughts?
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@agilecoachsafe Hi! We actually offer multiple dialects/accents on the app for some languages and the results are pretty good. We offer various accents for English. You can give it a try with Scottish English, which is a interesting accent to listen to and isn't often available on language apps.
@agilecoachsafe I'm not sure if we manage to convey the idea fully to you. With our app you are learning pronunciation with a native speaker! The only difference is that it's yourself. Try the app and you might be amazed by how you sound when you have no accent in a foreign language. I, myself was quite surprised about my accents in multiple languages.
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How does practicing with a voice clone make you understand cultural nuances and real-world conversations better, seems kinda limited and off, maybe adding real person interactions could help?
@jsdevsenior the goal isn't really to help with real-world conversations, but rather simply accents and pronunciation. It is limited in its scope but it is something that can be tricky to improve, and we hope to provide something that can help.
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This is a brilliant concept, Kamil! Using our own voices for practice is such a game changer! The personalization aspect is where it’s at. Can’t wait to see how this app scales with multiple languages and dialects. Definitely upvoting for the innovation! 🚀 Any plans for community feedback integration post-launch?
@star_boat Thank you! We already support 11 languages, and around 20 dialects. You can listen to yourself speaking, Colombian, Mexican, Peruvian, Argentinian or Peninsular Spanish. What's about listening to yourself speaking with a Scottish accent? No problem, we got you covered ^^!
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Found this tool through a friend's recommendation, the idea of using my own voice clone is kinda creepy, isn't it better to just practice with a native speaker? Also, what about different dialects, are they included or just the standard accents?
@aeranovaceo In my experience native speakers tend to be not very good at correcting pronunciation. They either ignore it or assume you can't really improve it, and get tired quickly of trying to help you.
We built our website because we believe that we can improve this. AI models can be good tools to practice languages. Voice clones make it easier to focus on the actual pronunciation without having to worry about a different speech style or tone of voice.
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