Fluently Accent Guru

Most pronunciation apps start by selling you a subscription. Accent Guru starts by answering one question for free. That's the whole pitch, and it's a good one: record roughly 30 seconds of English, get a strength-of-accent readout for US English, move on with your day. No email, no account, no app install. Pick this when you need a quick, external reference point. Say you're prepping for a US job interview or a conference talk and want to know whether your accent is likely to slow listeners down. Or you've been doing three months of pronunciation drills and want a rough before/after signal without paying for a formal assessment. Because it's from Fluently, the same team behind their AI English Tutor app, the model is built for English speech specifically rather than being a generic speech tool. Pass on it if what you actually want is correction. Accent Guru tells you how strong your accent is, not which vowels or consonants are tripping you up. There's no per-word scoring, no tongue-position guidance, no drill library. If your goal is accent reduction, this is the thermometer, not the medicine — pair it with ELSA Speak or Speechling for the actual phoneme work. In practice, the 30-second format is both the charm and the ceiling. Short enough that you'll actually do it, too short to catch how you speak when you relax into a longer conversation. Accent also shifts with context: you may score differently reading a script than riffing off the cuff, or after a coffee versus first thing in the morning. Run it a few times across different days before you take the number seriously. One thing to know going in — this measures your accent against US English as the reference point. If your target is British, Australian, or another variety, a "strong accent" result against US