உயிர் எழுத்துகள் Stress Test

Tamil children don’t practise in silent studios. They practise with the TV on, a fan running, someone cooking in the next room. So we tested it: does our pronunciation score still work when the place gets noisy?

Episode 04 of களம் · Kalam, our build-in-public series on Tamil speech technology.

What we tested:
The uyir letters (உயிர் எழுத்துகள், the Tamil vowels)
from a quiet room to [noisiest place]
Same phone, same letters, 3 attempts per letter in every place

What we did not do: we did not re-take bad scores and we did not pick the best attempts. Every score is shown on screen.

An important limit: this is an informal field test with a small number of speakers, on the vowel letters only. It is not a benchmark, and it does not tell us how the consonant letters would do. Those are harder, and are next.

Tell us in the comments: which place should we test next?

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