Speech Beach: Fluency Practice

Speech Beach is a practice tool for people who stutter. Put on headphones, start talking, and hear your own voice played back with a short delay (Delayed Auditory Feedback, DAF) and, if you like, a slightly shifted pitch (Frequency-Altered Feedback, FAF). Many people find that this kind of altered feedback helps them slow down and speak more smoothly. GUIDED PRACTICE Not sure what to practice? Nine guided exercises, from a warm-up and reading aloud to easy onsets, phrases with pauses and everyday situations, set the delay for you and tell you what to say. A delay ladder lowers the delay step by step, and a short check without feedback shows whether feedback actually helps you. Set a daily goal and a reminder, rate how each session felt, and find tips for getting the most out of your practice. ADAPTIVE MODE Speech Beach listens to how you are speaking. When it detects likely disfluencies, such as prolonged sounds, repeated starts or blocks, or when you speed up, it gradually increases the delay. While you speak fluently, it eases the delay back toward your minimum. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS Every session is saved on your device. See your speech rate, disfluencies per minute and practice time over 7, 30 or 90 days, and how they compare with the period before. BUILT FOR LOW LATENCY • Real-time audio engine tuned for minimal delay (about 8 ms of system overhead on wired headphones) • Keeps working with the screen locked, so your phone can stay in your pocket • Delay from 0 to 250 ms • Pitch shift up to ±12 semitones • Live view of your speaking rate and detected disfluencies PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your voice is processed on your device in real time • Nothing is recorded, stored, or uploaded • No account, no ads, no tracking, and it works offline SAFE TO USE Speech Beach only plays audio through headphones, to avoid acoustic feedback (howling). Wired headphones give the most accurate timing; Bluetooth adds extra delay. Available in English, Spanish, French, and Italian. PRICING Free to download, with a free 2-month trial of every feature. After the trial, you can choose Speech Beach Annual at US$29.99 per year or Speech Beach Monthly at US$4.99 per month (or the local equivalent). The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; you can cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Your subscription supports our research and development and keeps Speech Beach updated, secure and easy to access. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.speechbeach.org/privacy.html IMPORTANT Speech Beach is not a medical device and does not diagnose, treat, or cure stuttering. It is a practice aid and does not replace a speech-language pathologist. Disfluency detection is approximate.