Does sayit work well for a Spanish accent?

sayit works for a Spanish accent in the sense that matters most: its scoring engine listens to the actual sounds you produced and compares them to the target phonemes, rather than guessing which word you meant and marking you right if a speech-recognizer's autocorrect got there anyway. That mechanism is exactly what's needed to catch patterns common in Spanish-influenced English — like an inserted vowel before a consonant cluster ("estudent" for "student"), which a transcript-based tool tends to silently accept as correct because it heard past the vowel to the word it expected.

30-second version: sayit doesn't publish results broken out by Spanish specifically — its named tested-accent groups are Indian, American, British and European voices. What is documented is the underlying mechanism: phoneme-vs-target-IPA scoring, plus an epenthesis check built to name exactly this kind of inserted-vowel pattern, which is a better fit for Spanish-L1 English than a tool that only checks whether a word was recognized.

Why the mechanism is the honest answer here

Two very different things get sold as "pronunciation checking." One kind runs your speech through a general speech-recognition model tuned to guess words even through imperfect pronunciation — which means it often can't see the error at all, because its job is specifically to correct past it. The other kind, which is how sayit is built, scores the phonemes you actually produced against the phonemes the target word calls for, independent of whether a transcript would still "sound right." Spanish's consonant system doesn't allow certain clusters at the start of a word (English "school" or "student" need a vowel added in front in Spanish phonology), and that's the class of error phoneme-level scoring is designed to surface rather than paper over.

Where this is genuinely strong

• Per-word, per-phoneme feedback shows target IPA against your actual sound, so a cluster simplification or an inserted vowel is visible, not autocorrected away.
• Read-aloud practice and every drill (pacing, vowels, minimal pairs) are free, so you can test this on your own sentences before paying anything.
• IELTS and TOEFL exam-format practice (Pro/Max) is relevant if you're studying toward either exam.

Where to keep expectations honest

• Spanish isn't one of the four accent groups sayit names as explicitly tested (Indian, American, British, European) — the fit here is argued from how the engine works, not a published Spanish-specific result.
• sayit doesn't score grammar or vocabulary, and Spanish-English interference shows up there too (false cognates, article usage) — that's outside what this tool measures.
• It's an AI coach, not a Spanish-speaking human tutor who already knows the common substitution patterns by ear.

Who this is for

If cluster reduction or vowel insertion is the specific thing muddying your English, a tool that scores raw phonemes rather than autocorrected transcripts is the right category of tool, and sayit is built for exactly that. See how the underlying difference plays out generally in how sayit is different from speech-to-text.

Try it

Read a sentence aloud in the app — no card needed for the first take — and see which specific sounds it flags.