Saystep ChineseThe coffee smells good.
The coffee smells good.
Listen for the tone on each syllable. Do not replace lexical tones with English-style word stress. A pitch trace is a listening aid, not a tone grade.
Tones in short phrases › 01 四声
四声
- Listen to the Mandarin reference and notice the syllables.
- Say the phrase, keeping its meaning and tones in mind.
- Record again and compare by listening; a general score is not a tone score.
The tongue, lip and jaw descriptions are practice hints. They do not determine your actual mouth position from the audio alone.
You can practice with synthetic reference audio of the same Mandarin Chinese sentence.
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Pinyin and spoken-tone hints
Listen to the reference, then practice the Mandarin phrase. Authored pinyin shows lexical tones; selected sentences also have prepared spoken-tone notes. These hints do not diagnose your recording.
This device looks up exact authored sentences, including punctuation. Try 你好。 Unknown or edited text gets no guessed pinyin, tone changes or pronunciation diagnosis.
Compare the whole phrase by listening. Pinyin and prepared tone notes are learning aids, not a tone grade. The synthetic reference may realize connected speech differently.
See the rise and fall of your voice
The free sample is a synthetic voice reading the same Mandarin Chinese sentence. It is not a native speaker in natural conversation.
There is no reference audio, so no comparison curve is shown. Add one with "Overlay the free sample" above.
Every word in the practice sentence (This take)
Tap a word that has a timing to play it. Words that were not detected or have no timing are listed here too. If the chart is wide, swipe sideways to see the rest of the words.
Each voice is shown with its median at 0 semitones. Overall voice height is normalized, and the size of pitch movement is kept. The range shown is ±12 semitones. The line breaks where no pitch could be measured.
Shown in real seconds. Add reference audio or a Before to line them up by the start and end of speech, or by word. We do not score naturalness from curve match or pitch range alone.
Measured values, with each recording's median set to 0. The line breaks where there is no voicing. How closely the curves match is not used as a pronunciation score.
Free: pitch calculation, overlay, manual word sync and playback comparison. Automatic word timings from Azure reuse your existing sound analysis. Use reference audio of the same Mandarin Chinese sentence, said with the same intent.
Sound assessment (for reference)
After you record, you can get a sound assessment.
Pitch and lessons work without a connection. There is no score yet.