VoiceArticulation

Warm Up!

One continuous minute of tongue twisters that ramp from easy to hard — the drill you run before a call, a meeting or any other exercise here, to get your mouth moving before it matters.

Length: 60 seconds, one take
Ramp: Easy → medium → hard
Local score: None by design
Coach review: Articulation-focused

The method

Why it works

Articulation is muscle work. The twisters are chosen to collide similar sounds, so your tongue has to place each one deliberately instead of sliding through the phrase — the same reason singers run scales before a performance rather than after it.

Articulation and clarity
Deliberately awkward phrases make you conscious of mouth movement and enunciation, which is exactly the awareness that carries into ordinary speech.
Speed and control
Cards swap on a timer you choose — Slow, Normal, Fast or Very Fast. Slower settings ease you in; the fast ones push articulation and reaction speed.
Phonological awareness
Untangling similar-sounding syllables under time pressure is what makes the difference audible when you go back to speaking normally.

How a session runs

Step by step

1
Start the session — a single 60-second recording, not a card-by-card quiz.
2
Twisters appear in increasing difficulty: easy first, then medium, then hard.
3
Each card swaps on the speed you set, or immediately when you tap it.
4
At the end the take is saved as one session, and you can send it for a coach review.

Evaluation

What gets measured

Warm Up deliberately has no local task score. A 60-second ramp through phrases of mixed difficulty has no single number that would mean the same thing twice, so rather than publish an unstable one, the app records the measurement and leaves the judgement to the coach review.

No deterministic overall — by design

Words per minute

measured

Your articulation rate for the take, tracked across sessions so you can see the ramp get easier. This is a measurement, not a graded component.

Twisters completed

measured

How many cards you got through in the minute.

Details worth knowing

Because there is no task score, Warm Up sessions never enter the 0–100 trend on Progress — they still count toward practice minutes and your streak.

The coach review

What the AI adds

Sent for review, a warm-up is graded as an articulation drill rather than a speech:

A verbatim transcription — every repetition, stumble and restart kept, not tidied up.
Per-phoneme-group articulation scores, each citing 2–5 actual words from your recording and how much material it had to judge from (few / some / many).
Drill words: the exact words you slurred or ran together, written back in their correct form as tap-to-hear buttons.
Pauses between twisters are explicitly excluded — the model is told those are you reading the next card, not hesitating.

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