Common Ear

by Clozemaster

Improve your listening skills and finally learn to understand native speakers in another language.

Understanding native speakers is tough! They speak way too fast, the words run together, and they drop sounds and even entire words sometimes.

What you hear on Duolingo:

I am going to get something to eat later, do you want to come?

vs what you hear in real-life:

I'mma get sumth'n to eat later, you wanna come?

🤔🤯⁉️

AI/robot/text-to-speech voices are great for when you're starting out. But how do you make the jump to be able to understand real people/movies/TV/YouTube?

Then we discovered the Mozilla Common Voice project.

A database of native speaker recordings you say? 🧐

🧠🧠🧠 Why not use this massive database of native speaker recordings in over 100 languages to help humans learn how real people speak? 🧠🧠🧠

So we built Common Ear, to help people learn how real people speak.

We took the datasets from Common Voice, did some basic filtering to get a set of quality sentences, normalized the audio, added machine translations, and added AI grammar explanations. We end up with a max of 10,000 sentences for each language that can be played through at random.

How it works:

1. Listen to a short recording from a native speaker.
2. Type what you hear.
3. Choose when you want to review the recording again.

Warning! Common Ear is best suited for advanced beginner / intermediate learners who want to improve their ability to understand native speakers and lots of different accents. If you're a complete beginner we recommend Duolingo and then Clozemaster before moving on to Common Ear.

Listen to and transcribe thousands of native speaker recordings in 31 languages to improve your listening skills fast. ⚡