# Azure Speech Pronunciation Assessment Projects at AI Tinkerers

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An AI-driven speech evaluation tool that provides real-time, actionable feedback on pronunciation accuracy, fluency, and prosody for language learners.

Azure Speech Pronunciation Assessment acts as a personal, scalable language coach by analyzing spoken audio against native-speaker models (trained on over 100,000 hours of speech data). It delivers immediate, objective scores across key metrics: accuracy, fluency, completeness, and prosody (rhythm and intonation). Developers can integrate this API into educational apps, gaming platforms, or corporate training systems to pinpoint specific mispronunciations down to the phoneme level. With support for both scripted reading and unscripted speaking scenarios, it provides the precise feedback loop learners need to speak with confidence.

- Official technology site: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/speech-service/pronunciation-assessment
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Canto101: Learn Cantonese with Karaoke & Interactive Role-Play.](https://hong-kong.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_b3Uv6gyaL6c)

Canto101 is a full-stack web app that makes Cantonese learning fun and culturally immersive. Instead of dry textbooks, users chat with an AI in realistic scenarios like ordering milk tea or hailing a taxi, search for Cantonese songs and tap any lyric to instantly see its Jyutping romanisation and meaning, and play vocabulary games that reinforce memory. The live demo includes the AI conversation engine, the smart dictionary with over a thousand entries, the karaoke lyric viewer, and the challenge zone. Real-time pronunciation scoring is firmly on my roadmap and I will also share my architectural blueprint for how I plan to integrate it using Azure Speech in the near future.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Hong Kong: July Meetup @ Wyndham Social — 2026-07-29 — Hong Kong
- Public talk page: https://hong-kong.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_b3Uv6gyaL6c

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