Your English is not the problem.
You read it fluently. You understand everything. But when the room turns to you, the words won't come. UnMute trains that exact moment.
Start speakingNo signup. Five minutes.
No scoring. No judgment. No performing.
Ease your way into fluency and make it a habit.
How it works
You're never thrown into conversation cold. You read a short, easy passage aloud, get one warm suggestion from your practice partner, read again, and hear both takes side by side. Your own voice, better, in the first session.
Then the text quietly fades. Sentences become pointers, pointers become nothing, and one day you notice you're speaking, not reading. Pressure arrives last and gently, one notch at a time, after your speech runs on habit. Habit doesn't panic.
Pressure arrives last, and gently — after your speech runs on habit.
Habit doesn't panic.
Five rooms, one voice
For non-native professionals who go quiet in meetings and at lunch alike. Passages and classics, idioms with their stories, words worth owning, the small verbs English runs on — every one practiced aloud, in your voice.
For the big talk — board meeting, conference, lecture, defense. Tell it your event or upload your material; it writes your script, then fades it to pointers until the talk is yours. Practice against your own slides. Kept talks stay in your vault — erasable without trace, any time.
For timed video interviews and video essays. A prompt, a countdown, a lens, one take. Practiced until it's boring.
For the meeting that suddenly turns to you. Any topic, sixty seconds, no warning — trained until the first minute holds no fear.
IELTS & TOEFL speaking, the real parts on the real clocks, rehearsed until the format is boring.
Who is it for?
Fluent on paper, silent in meetings. You understand everything; the room just never hears it. The everyday practice is built for you.
A board meeting, a keynote, a pitch. The Rehearsal Room writes your script with you and fades it until the talk is yours.
Defense, viva, seminar. Long-format speaking from pointers, tough questions included — practiced until the format is boring.
Native or not. If you've left a meeting carrying the better answer you didn't say, this is the room where you learn to say it.
The Exam Room. IELTS & TOEFL Speaking.
Your speaking test has a shape. The same parts, the same clocks, every time.
This room rehearses that exact shape with you. The interview questions. The cue card and its one minute of notes. The tiny prep windows and the tones. The real timings, down to the second, until the format is boring. Boring doesn't freeze.
IELTS Speaking: Parts 1, 2 and 3, on the real timings.
TOEFL iBT Speaking: all four tasks, on the real prep clocks.
No scores here, and no predictions. You rehearse the test. The band is the examiner's job on the day. Retaking just your speaking? This room was built for you.
What makes UnMute different
Other tools ask you to perform, then grade you. UnMute never grades. A companion practices with you, starting where you're safe, moving the ground so gradually you cross into free speaking without meeting the freeze. No levels, no streaks, no scores. The only clock is hours spent speaking, and by five of them you'll hear the difference.
Your voice, your call
Keep your recordings, or have them gone when the session ends.
What it costs
Your first thirty speaking-minutes — every feature open, nothing held back.
Five speaking-hours a month. Every room, every feature, your drawer, any device.
Twenty-five speaking-hours a month — for the lecture, the keynote, the season of real talking.
Every plan opens everything. Plans differ in one thing only: speaking-hours.
Questions, answered plainly
- Does it grade me? Where's the report card?
- There isn't one, on purpose. Grades are for examiners; practice partners who grade you make you rehearse the fear instead of the speaking. UnMute tells you facts a friend would notice — your pass came in under time, your close landed strongest — and lets the speaking itself improve the speaking. Even where we train for graded exams, we rehearse the format until it's boring and leave the band to the examiner on the day.
- Where do my words go?
- Uploaded files are read on your device and let go. A talk is saved only when you tap keep — sealed, out of analytics, erasable without trace in one gesture.
- What's a speaking-hour?
- Time you actually spend speaking. It's the only clock we count, and the only thing plans measure.
- Can it write my talk?
- Yes. Tell the Rehearsal Room about your event or upload your material; it writes the script, you edit it, and then it fades into pointers you own.
- What about my accent?
- The listening is tuned to your voice, not against an announcer's. Your accent is how you sound, not something to fix.
- Is this official IELTS or TOEFL material?
- No. It is practice in the exams' exact format. UnMute is not affiliated with or endorsed by ETS, the British Council, IDP or Cambridge.
- What is the examiner's voice like in the exam drills?
- It behaves the way examiners do, which is to say it doesn't react. That flatness is half the exam, so you practice meeting it.
- Do I need to install anything?
- No. A browser and a microphone. Sign up with your email and speak.
The founder
The founder of UnMute, a non-native English speaker, has lived the problem for years. He is well read in English. He studied in it, worked in it, and wrote in it at the highest levels of his profession. And still, in rooms that mattered, the words wouldn't come out the way he knew them.
For years he assumed he needed more preparation: more vocabulary, more practice, more polish. He prepared more, and nothing changed. That's how he finally understood that it was never about English. It's what pressure does to speech. The words are all there; the moment locks the door to them. More study never opens that door, because study was never the problem. That's the thing UnMute trains.
If you've ever walked out of a meeting carrying the better answer you didn't say, you already know what he learned: the problem was never your English.
The better answer you didn't say is still yours. Come say it.
Read your first passage