A couple of quick questions to check this study is a fit. Please answer honestly — if it's not a match you'll be sent straight back to Prolific and still paid for your time.
You're helping build an open benchmark that measures how well speech-recognition systems understand language learners — hesitations, self-corrections, switching to English for a word. Imperfect, learner-ish speech is exactly what's wanted; don't over-produce it. Takes about 5 minutes. Everything records right here in your browser.
You'll record ….
A few clips ask you to hesitate, cut yourself off, or drop an English word mid-sentence. Here's what those sound like (synthetic examples):
Best on a phone or laptop in a quiet room, using Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. You'll be asked for microphone permission.
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Your recordings were uploaded. That's genuinely useful — real learner speech is the hardest thing to get. You can close this tab.
This study needs native/fluent English speakers who are currently learning French, German or Spanish at around A2–B2. Based on your answers it isn't a match this time — thank you for checking.