Every learner already knows how to read. We use that to teach them how to speak.

ClearScript respells any language in the writing system the learner already reads. English for the world. Japanese for Chinese speakers. Any pair you need.

Why pronunciation breaks

English spelling is the worst guide to English pronunciation.

You cannot sound out "thought", "though" and "through" from how they are written. No major language has a wider gap between spelling and sound — which is why we start with English. But the deeper problem is universal: every learner reads a new language through the rules of the one they grew up with, and the sounds often come out wrong. ClearScript gives them a guide they can trust — their own writing system, respelling how the language actually sounds.

Why nobody fixes it

Pronunciation became the conversation nobody will have.

One camp treated accent as a flaw to polish away. The other decided the safe course was silence, and called it respect. Both abandon the learner. Our position: your accent is your business; being understood is ours. It is a skill — measurable, teachable, and mostly built from sounds you already own.

Read our position — In praise of being understood →

The technology

We respell any language in the writing system your learners already know.

ClearScript re-encodes a target language's pronunciation using the spelling rules of the learner's first language. No phonetic alphabet. No new symbols. Nothing to learn before learning. They read the way they always have, and what comes out is intelligible speech.

One engine. Every language pair. The rules change with each pair. The engine doesn't.

What we deliver

Technology, data, or a programme built for you.

License the engine

ClearScript respelling in your product, through a simple API.

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License the data

The pronunciation lexicons and language-pair mappings beneath the engine.

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Commission a programme

For governments and institutions: bespoke national language programmes — the pair you need, the curriculum, the rollout, the measurement.

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Who we work with

One platform. Seven ways in.

Governments

National programmes, designed for your language.

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Publishers

A respelling standard for your catalogue.

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Language Apps

Pronunciation your users can read, via API.

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API

Build on the engine.

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Data Licensing

The corpus under licence.

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Partner with Us

Invest, join, collaborate.

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Learners

Find a course in your language.

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Every learner deserves a language written the way they read.

Tell us the pair you need. We build it.

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