Acento English speaking coach
Phone calls are harder than talking face to face: no lips to read, no gestures, and details that have to be exactly right. Acento lets you practice the calls you keep putting off, like booking the doctor, the dentist or the bank, until spelling your name and confirming a time feels normal.
Each call comes with a made-up card: a name to spell, a date of birth, a phone number and the times you're free. You never share your own information.
Choose the doctor, dentist, specialist, school, apartment, DMV, mechanic or bank. The receptionist doesn't know why you're calling until you say, reads each detail back, and offers her own open times, which won't always suit you.
If a number or letter comes out unclear, she may hear it wrong, just like on a real line. Your review checks every detail she read back against your card and shows what to do next time: spell slower, correct her, or confirm the booking at the end.
No. Every call gives you a made-up details card, so you never share your own information.
Ask her to repeat or slow down, as you would on a real call. Asking is part of the practice.
The phone calls come with Premium ($9 a month or $69 a year). You can try a free call with the speaking coach first, to hear how a live call works and which sounds to work on.