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Practise speaking English out loud, free, in your phone browser
By Rahul Iyengar · Last updated
SpeakUp Coach is not a language course and does not teach grammar or pronunciation. It is where you practise speaking English out loud and see, in seconds, your pace in words per minute, your fillers, your pauses, your structure and your clarity, then one thing to change. Free, in your phone browser, nothing to install.
Talk for one minute
About your day, your town, your work. Press record; your first take needs no login.
Pick a topic, or speak freely
Your prompt:
Talk about your day so far, in English, for one minute.
Prefer more topics, categories and a longer write-up? Open the full practice page. Open the practice page
There is no accent score, and the score is not a prediction of how you will do in any exam, interview or class. It tells you how the minute came across, and one thing to change next.
Written for people who can read and write English but freeze when they have to speak it: in a meeting, a class, a call or a shop.
The eight questions, answered
Eight everyday topics. Each note is what to have ready before you press record. Tap the practice link under it, talk for about a minute, then read your feedback.
Talk about your day so far, in English, for one minute
Start with the time you woke up and move forward in order: three or four things that happened, one sentence each. The order does the work, so you never have to search for what comes next. End with what you will do after this recording.
PractiseTalk about your day so far, in English, for one minute.Describe your hometown to someone who has never been there
Have three things ready: how big it is and where it sits, one place you would take a visitor first, and one thing people there do that visitors notice. Describe, do not list; one sentence of detail on each beats six names.
PractiseDescribe your hometown to someone who has never been there.Explain your job or your course of study in plain English
Explain it as you would to a neighbour, not a colleague: what problem your work solves, what a normal day looks like, and the one part you like most. If you catch yourself using a word from your field, say it again in plain words.
PractiseExplain your job or your course of study in plain English.Tell a short story about something that happened this week
Pick a small thing: a bus that did not come, a message you got, a meal that went wrong. Say where you were, what happened, and how it ended, in that order. Past tense all the way through, and a last sentence that closes it.
PractiseTell a short story about something that happened this week.Describe your morning routine, step by step
Use "first", "then", "after that" and "finally" to carry you from waking up to leaving the house. Five or six steps is enough. This is the easiest topic on the page, so use it for a first take or a day when you do not feel like talking.
PractiseDescribe your morning routine, step by step.Give your opinion on a news story you read today
Say what the story was in one sentence, what you think about it in one sentence, and one reason why. Then one thing that could change your mind. Four sentences of opinion is harder than it sounds and worth doing every day.
PractiseGive your opinion on a news story you read today.Explain how to cook one dish you know well
Name the dish, list the three or four main ingredients, then give the steps in order with "first", "then" and "while that cooks". Instructions force you to use verbs and sequence words, which is exactly what freezes most people mid-sentence.
PractiseExplain how to cook one dish you know well.Describe a person you admire, and why
Say who they are and how you know of them, one thing they did, and what it shows about them. Then one way you have tried to be like them. Keep it to one person and one quality; two makes the minute wander.
PractiseDescribe a person you admire, and why.What this is, and what it is not
Speaking a language has two halves: learning it, and practising it out loud with something telling you how it came across. SpeakUp Coach is the second half only. You pick a topic, talk for a minute, and in seconds see your pace in words per minute, your filler words, your pauses and how clearly the answer held together, then one thing to change.
It is not Duolingo. It is not a pronunciation tutor. There are no vocabulary lessons, no grammar drills and no levels. If you want to learn English, this is not it, and a course or a teacher will serve you better.
If you can read and write English, understand it when you hear it, and still freeze when you have to speak it in a meeting, a class or a shop, this is for you. The freeze is not a vocabulary problem. It is a practice problem, and the only fix is minutes spent talking out loud with a way to see what changed.
A ten-minute daily routine
Ten minutes a day, the same shape every day. Three steps.
Step 1, talk for one minute. Pick one everyday topic from the list on this page and talk about it for one minute without stopping. Mistakes are allowed; the point is to keep going. If you run out, describe what is in front of you until the minute ends.
Step 2, pick one thing. Read the feedback and choose one thing only: your pace, or one filler sound. Not three things. A pace of under 100 words per minute with long stalls means you are searching for words; a filler count above three means you are filling the search with sound.
Step 3, record the same topic once more. Record the same topic a second time, changing only the one thing you picked. Compare the two counts. Ten minutes covers both takes and the reading in between, and the same topic twice is what makes the change visible.
Do this for two weeks on different topics and look at the trend, not at any one day. One bad take is a bad day; a line that moves is a habit.
PractiseTalk about your day so far, in English, for one minute.What the numbers look like for people like you
Among users of SpeakUp Coach, median pace ranges from 89 words per minute (Bangladesh) to 117 (United States). That is a narrower range than most people expect, so the common fear of speaking too slowly is usually misplaced. A steady 89 words per minute with clear pauses is easy to follow; it is the long stalls between words that lose a listener, not the pace.
The thing that changes most with practice is fillers. The median ranges from 1.3 a minute (Philippines) to 3 (Pakistan) among users of SpeakUp Coach, and a filler count is something you can move within a week by pausing instead of making a sound while you look for the next word.
8,973 takes from 3,567 people in Pakistan on SpeakUp Coach, 21 July to 18 October 2026. Medians. Not a measurement of anyone's accent, and not a language test.
2,970 takes from 1,285 people in Bangladesh on SpeakUp Coach, 21 July to 18 October 2026. Medians. Not a measurement of anyone's accent, and not a language test.
Where the first minute goes
The eight topics on this page are everyday ones on purpose: your day, your town, your work, a dish you cook. Nothing you have to prepare, nothing anybody will mark. The point is to get used to talking in English with no stakes, so that when there are stakes, the talking itself is not the hard part.
When there are stakes, use the page for them. Introducing yourself in English has its own page with a 60-second structure. Interview questions, a presentation you have to give tomorrow and a project viva each have their own page too, with the questions those rooms ask. They are linked under "Related practice pages" below.
PractiseDescribe your morning routine, step by step.What the AI listens for
- Pace. Words per minute, and where you rushed.
- Fillers. “Um”, “like”, “actually”, “you know”. Counted, not guessed.
- Pauses. A pause that lands a point counts for you; a long stall counts against you.
- Structure and content. Did the answer open, make its point, and close, or trail off?
Not scored: your accent. And no score here is a language test or a prediction of how an exam or an interview will go.
Part of the free Confident Speaker Foundations track: 15 short lessons you can take with a free account.
Works in Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone. Nothing to download. Start without an account. Your recording is sent to the United States to be transcribed and scored; what we keep.
Questions people ask
- What does SpeakUp score, and what does it not score?
- It scores your pace in words per minute, filler words such as "um", "like" and "actually", your pauses, and an AI read of the structure and content of your answer, then gives you one thing to fix next. There is no accent score. It does not know what an examiner or an interviewer decides, and its score is not a prediction of how well you do in any exam, interview or class.
- Does my accent affect my score?
- There is no accent score, and nothing here asks you to change how you sound. The scores are built from a transcript of what you said, so if the transcript mishears a word, the counts built on it can be off. Your transcript is shown with your feedback, so you can check it.
- Where does my recording go?
- It is sent to the United States, where our transcription provider (AssemblyAI) turns it into text and SpeakUp scores it. For a practice without an account, we don’t keep your audio on our servers, or your full transcript, just the phrases your feedback quotes. The details are on our privacy page.
- Does it work on a phone?
- Yes. It runs in Chrome on Android and in Safari on iPhone. There is nothing to install. If the browser asks for microphone permission, tap Allow; if you tapped Block earlier, the page shows you how to turn it back on.
- Do I need an account?
- Not for your first answer. Tap a question, record, and read your feedback. To record again, create a free account (email and password). No card, no paid tier.
- Is it really free?
- Yes. There is no paid tier. Every feature on speakupcoach.com is free.
- Is this an app to learn English?
- No. It does not teach English; it is for practising speaking it. There are no lessons in grammar, vocabulary or pronunciation. You talk about a topic for a minute and see how the talking came across: pace, fillers, pauses and clarity.
- Can I practise speaking English for free without login?
- Your first take needs no login: pick a topic, record, read the feedback. To keep recording, create a free account with an email and a password. There is no card and no paid tier; a free account has no cap on sessions.
- Does it correct my grammar?
- No. The feedback is about delivery: your pace in words per minute, your filler words, your pauses, and how clearly the answer held together. It does not mark grammar or vocabulary. Your transcript is shown, so you can read back what you said and spot your own slips.
- Does it work for IELTS or other speaking tests?
- It is not an IELTS tool and it does not predict a band or a grade. What you can use is the timer and the pace and filler counts to practise talking for one to two minutes on a topic without stopping, which is the habit those tests ask for. The score itself says nothing about what an examiner will decide.
- Which English does it understand?
- English in any accent. The transcript is built from what you said and is shown with your feedback, so if a word was misheard you can see it and know which counts to trust. There is no accent score, and nothing here asks you to sound different.