How SpeakForward works

SpeakForward is a private AI-assisted speaking coach for invited adult English learners. It helps you practise useful English for everyday life, social situations and work. It is not a formal English test, qualification, or employment assessment.

Your first visit

1. Sign in with the account provided by the pilot administrator.
2. Confirm that you are 18 or older, read the privacy notice, and give consent.
3. Have a short five-question welcome conversation about an interest, something that happened recently, a future plan, asking for help, and the conversations you want to practise.
4. Speak naturally or use typing. There are no right or wrong answers.
5. Read what the coach noticed and its suggested starting path: Foundations, Everyday Communication, or Workplace Communication.
6. Choose the suggestion or select another path. You remain in control.

Your Home page

After choosing a path, Home gives you three ways to continue:

• Continue coaching presents a realistic situation and asks you to respond independently.
• Recommended practice opens a sentence pattern selected from your recent coaching.
• Practice Library lets you choose patterns for requests, everyday needs, conversation, problems, storytelling, plans and workplace English.

Practice and feedback

1. Read the situation, your communication task, and what to include.
2. Use Speak to record your answer, or select Type as an accessible fallback.
3. For speech, check the temporary text showing what SpeakForward heard.
4. Read the coach’s feedback: a strength, the most useful improvement, and a natural example where appropriate.
5. Select Listen to coach if you want your device to read the feedback aloud.
6. Try the next challenge, practise a recommended pattern, or complete the session and continue.

Classic or Animated coach

On Home, you can keep the simple Classic coach or choose the optional Animated coach. The character is AI-generated, not a real person, and no camera is used. Automatic coach speech is a separate choice and is off by default. These display preferences are saved only in your browser.

When you return

SpeakForward remembers your chosen path and structured progress. You normally continue from where you stopped. When useful, the coach may offer a short review before the next skill; you do not repeat the full welcome conversation each time.

Your privacy

Raw audio and full answer transcripts are not saved by SpeakForward. It stores structured learning observations, progress, consent and necessary account information. Do not enter passwords, payment details, authentication codes, identity documents, or sensitive personal information into a practice response.

Your choices and support

You can change coach style, switch between speaking and typing, choose a different recommended path, or log out. Start again removes saved placement and learning progress only after you confirm the action. To withdraw, request access, correction or deletion, or make a complaint, email d_raghu9@yahoo.com.

There is no pass or fail. The aim is to find a useful next practice step and build confidence through short, realistic conversations.

Private beta: SpeakForward is still being tested. If something looks wrong or confusing, please tell the pilot administrator.