Parla — your AI speaking buddy
Speak English
with confidence.
A few minutes a day, out loud, with Echo — a patient AI coach that listens closely and remembers how you’re doing.
Free to start. No sign-up needed.
Read aloud
Short texts written for your level and interests.
Get precise feedback
Echo listens to every word and shows exactly what to fix.
Come back tomorrow
Echo remembers your progress and plans the next step.
with confidence.
A few minutes a day, out loud, with Echo — a patient AI coach that listens closely and remembers how you’re doing.
Read aloud
Short texts written for your level and interests.
Get precise feedback
Echo listens to every word and shows exactly what to fix.
Come back tomorrow
Echo remembers your progress and plans the next step.
Free to start. No sign-up needed.
friend.
Echo plans today around the sounds and words you’ve been working on.
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Read Aloud
Written for your level, interests and weak spots.
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Talk with Echo
A relaxed conversation, with gentle corrections.
Today’s news
Real headlines, retold for your level.
Today
Echo remembers. You just show up.
Your level, weak patterns, vocabulary strength, recent topics and Echo’s notes all persist — nobody starts from zero each day. Every morning, Parla plans a short day of practice around them: a few minutes, out loud.
A daily plan, not a course catalogue
One lesson up next in the ink card, the rest of today underneath — chosen because of what you stumbled on last time.
Streaks, XP and a level that moves
Streaks and XP from Whisperer towards Legend, and a CEFR level that moves up or down based on your recent scores.
Find your real level first
A two-minute placement check — two readings and one open answer — sets your starting level and seeds Echo’s memory.
Learn
Every lesson is written for you, on the spot.
Seven kinds of practice, numbered I–VII in the app. Same list, same words — this is the real Learn screen, restated for the web.
Read Aloud
Stories and explainers written for your level and interests.
Speed Run
Fast-speaking practice with a live pacer that highlights where you should be. The target speed grows as you improve.
Pattern Drill
Sentences built around the sounds you tend to drop — ‘th’, -ed endings, final -s, articles, V/W, R/L.
Word Power
Five new words, learned by saying them out loud — used in a story, then spaced-repetition review.
News Reader
Real headlines, retold at your level, with key vocabulary and a link to the original.
Speak Freely
One open question, no script. Feedback on grammar, words and flow.
Role-play
Job interviews, cafés, doctors and more, each with three goals. Echo stays in character and ticks goals off as they happen.
Placement check
Two minutes of speaking to set your level and focus areas.
How it works
Read it out loud. Echo does the rest.
Read aloud
Passages written for your level, interests and weak spots. Tap the ink record button — it turns terracotta while Echo listens.
Try it — visual demo only, nothing is recorded.
Every word is checked
Your recording is transcribed verbatim — mistakes kept — then aligned word by word with the text: correct, changed, skipped, or not read yet. The measurements don’t depend on the AI, so scores are explainable and stable.
The next lesson fixes it
Echo turns that into friendly feedback, updates its memory of your weak patterns, and writes the next lesson to work on exactly those. Patterns fade as you improve.
What went wrong — and what went right
“Great reading.” Then, precisely why.
Every session ends with a review. Your own words appear with each mistake highlighted, grouped by type — pronunciation, skipped words, grammar, word choice, filler words. Tap a highlight to see what happened, why, and how to fix it.
Hear it correctly · Hear yourself
Compare Echo’s version with your own recording, kept on your device.
Fix these now
Your mistakes become a drill of their corrected sentences, straight from the review.
How you sounded
Pitch, volume, pauses, pace and steadiness — scored as energy, expressiveness, confidence, flow, steadiness and clarity. Echo coaches delivery, not just words.
Tap any word
Meaning, a simple explanation, a translation into your language, an example — and hear it spoken.
Read Aloud · Result
Echo reads replies aloud in a natural voice — voice-back, in the app.
Talk with Echo
A friend who gently corrects you.
Voice or text chat with Echo. Using a new word correctly while talking to Echo counts double towards mastering it — and once words are mastered, Echo picks new ones for your level and interests, so there are always some to learn.
Role-play real life
A job interview, a café, the doctor, a hotel, asking for a raise, returning an item, meeting a neighbour, a team stand-up — or describe your own scenario. Three goals per scene, a report at the end.
News at your level
Real headlines from the day, retold so you can actually read them aloud.
Start as a guest
No sign-up needed to begin. Add Google or email later and keep everything — streak, words and progress stay in Parla’s own database.
Who it’s for
However your English is today.
Onboarding asks one honest question — “How’s your English today?” — and Echo adjusts as it gets to know you. English first; Echo explains tricky words in your first language.
Just starting
I know some words and simple phrases.
Getting there
I can talk about everyday things, slowly.
Conversational
I can handle most daily conversations.
Confident
I speak comfortably but want to sound natural.
Advanced
I’m fluent and want polish and nuance.
Goals people bring to Parla
Five minutes is a real plan
Questions
Before you speak up.
What is Parla, in one sentence?
Parla is your AI speaking buddy: you read AI-written texts out loud, Echo listens, finds exactly where you stumble, remembers it, and writes the next lesson to fix it.
Which language will I learn?
English first, with more languages later. Echo uses your first language — Hindi, Spanish, Telugu, Tamil, Arabic, French and many more are offered at onboarding — to explain tricky words.
Do I need an account to start?
No. Start as a guest, free, with no sign-up. You can add Google or email later and keep your streak and progress.
How does Echo know my level?
Start with the two-minute placement check — two readings and one open answer. After that, your CEFR level moves automatically based on your recent scores.
How is my speaking scored?
Deterministically first: a verbatim transcript is aligned word by word with the text, patterns are tagged, and accuracy and pace are measured. Echo then adds friendly feedback and adjusts pronunciation and fluency. Scores cover accuracy, pronunciation, fluency and pace — plus how you sounded: energy, expressiveness, confidence, flow, steadiness and clarity.
Does Echo remember me between days?
Yes. Your level, weak patterns (which decay as you improve), vocabulary strength, recent topics and Echo’s notes persist, and each day’s plan is built from them.
Where can I get the app?
Parla is an iOS, Android and web app built with Expo. It isn’t being linked to a store listing from this page yet — when the store links are ready, this is where they’ll go. Nothing here points to a fake listing.
Speak English with confidence.
A few minutes a day, out loud, with Echo. Free to start — no sign-up needed. Store links will live here as soon as the listings are public.
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