SpeechTeach turns the word list your speech pathologist sends home into an explorable and animated teaching experience.

It listens for the sound, not just the word.

Most apps that “listen” are running ordinary word recognition, which will happily accept “baf” for “bath”. It is built to find real words in messy audio, which is exactly the wrong instinct for articulation practice.

SpeechTeach also runs a phoneme model, right on your device, that looks for the target sound in the right place in the word. Your child hears encouragement either way. You get the honest picture.

Animated mouth
shows the way.

Every new sound is introduced by a 3D mouth showing exactly where lips and tongue go, so you both know what you are aiming for before the first word appears.

Designed for a child who can’t read yet.

Every instruction is spoken. There is no button to press: rainbow sound bars move with your child’s voice, and if they answer before the app has finished asking, it stops and listens. The words on screen are for the grown-up looking over their shoulder. Pictures, sounds and cheering do the rest.

Send it straight to your therapist.

One tap builds a report (accuracy by sound, sounds at the start of words versus the end, week over week) and bundles it with your child’s actual recordings, ready to send. Your speech pathologist sees what home practice really sounded like, instead of what anyone remembers of it.

Every word becomes a holo card.

Each word is asked three times, and every try said well lights a star. Two or three stars wins the word’s holo card, a shiny foil card that shifts as you tilt the phone and joins your child’s own collection, and it is theirs to keep. One star and the word simply comes back another day.

Hear the progress.

SpeechTeach keeps your child’s very first attempt at each word, and puts it next to their most recent one, with two play buttons. You don’t read a percentage and hope. You press play twice and hear the change yourself.

No pressure. No guilt. No nagging.

A word your child can’t say yet stays waiting on the map and comes back another day: they can move straight on, and nothing on screen ever says “wrong”. The daily goal celebrates when you hit it and stays quiet when you don’t, because some days are like that.

A parent dashboard with honest numbers.

Accuracy by sound, the start of a word scored apart from the end, week over week, plus every attempt and the word the app heard back. It also tells you how to cue each sound, written for you to say out loud, mid practice. A sound patterns card shows what the app hears in place of each target sound, so you know which sound to cue.

Speech recognition, sound scoring and every recording happen on your device and stay there. Nothing is ever sent anywhere unless you tap share yourself.

SpeechTeach is free to download. Pick the sound your child is working on: that whole world is free, forever. Every word in it, the animated mouth, the recordings and the honest numbers. When your speech pathologist adds the next sound, a single in-app purchase opens all 17 worlds and unlimited child profiles. It covers your whole family through Family Sharing, and it never renews.

Children roughly 1 to 7 who are working on their speech sounds, and the grown-ups practising with them. It fits alongside what your speech pathologist has already given you.

Romeo is four and works on his articulation. His dad built this because the ten minutes between the therapy session and the next one is where progress is won, and a printed word list is not fun for anybody.