SpeakingPal helps you improve your English speaking skills.
SpeakingPal is a mobile education company that focuses on improving English speaking skills. It provides a subscription based service that allows access to all learning content and automatically provided pronunciation feedback services. The user simply speaks to a video character in a short, humorous dialog, and gets instant feedback on his/her speaking performance. SpeakingPal provides this instant feedback with easy color-coded scoring (green=good, yellow=ok, red=you can improve) in a moving bar immediately after the recognition has been done. A review screen provides all utterances that were spoken, along with the color-coding for each word of each utterance so that users can pinpoint where to improve. In addition, at the review stage, the user can hear his/her own recording, compare it to a video of a native speaker, and re-record the utterance as often as desired, getting feedback for each try. The company is founded by a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in high-tech management ,mobile technology, cloud computing, automatic speech recognition, linguistics and English Language Learning (ELL).
Announced Date | Round | Money Raised | Number of Investors | Lead Investors | Post Valuation | |
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May 28, 2014 | Series A | $1.45M | 1 | — | — | Detail |
Investor Name | Lead Investor | Funding Round |
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Massa Innovations | — | Series A |