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Mandarin Tone Trainer is a pronunciation tool designed to help users master Mandarin tones. It functions as an audio-based learning aid that provides feedback on tone production and accuracy. The product serves… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mandarin Pronunciation launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1IT

    Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes. It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web. Grades per-syllable pronunciation + tones with Viterbi forced alignment. Try it here: https://simedw.com/projects/ear/

    Jan 2026 · simedw.com · its alternatives →

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    Tone▲107

    Confidence boosting music trainer

    2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    A fun, free way to learn the tones in Chinese

    2023 · chinesetones.app · its alternatives →

  4. 4
    YiChi▲94

    Learn to speak fluent Chinese Mandarin

    2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

  5. 5PP

    2020 · sergeykish.com · its alternatives →

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    yuyin.io▲136

    Master Chinese pronunciation with AI-powered feedback

    2025 · yuyin.io · its alternatives →

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    🎹 Memorize piano scales with ease! A piano practice program w/ MIDI support. Consider it an interactive reference manual - ZaneH/piano-trainer

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8
    BoldVoice▲346

    Accent coaching app for non-native English speakers

    2021 · boldvoice.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    What accent do you have in English? I will tell in 30s

    Nov 2025 · guru.getfluently.app · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    Accent coaching app for non-native English speakers

    2021 · boldvoice.com · its alternatives →

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    Master Chinese pronunciation with real-time AI feedback

    Feb 2026 · toneperfect.app · its alternatives →

  12. 12MI

    Feb 2026 · valtterimaja.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, it’s been 8 years since I posted on here about the launch of my Japanese dictionary app Nihongo [0] and I’m finally back with a new app: Nihongo Lessons! Think of Nihongo Lessons as the textbook to Nihongo’s dictionary. It’s an app for learning Japanese, specifically made for learners who are serious about becoming fluent, and want a guided set of content that will help them efficiently acquire vocabulary and grammar. The project came about when Adam Shapiro of Japanese Level Up (Jalup) [1] announced last April that he was shutting Jalup down. As a fan of Adam’s work I was bummed to…

    2022 · lessons.nihongo-app.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14TT

    Tongue Trainer, a product I'm soft-launching, is a different approach to achieving greater civility online and irl. It combines Jewish laws of ethical speech (Chofetz Chaim) with Tibetan Buddhist mind training (Lojong). The system comes as a deck of 59 slogans to ponder and practice lojong-style. Simple instructions included. Never, ever hurt someone with your words again with Tongue Trainer: https://tgc.link/tonguetrainer

    2022 · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    AI Chinese language tutor

    2024 · lingotheory.com · its alternatives →

  16. 16
    ChordIQ▲103

    Learn notes, chords, sight reading, perfect pitch and more.

    2020 · songtive.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    Chinese dictionary and training tool with AI

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    One-stop Mandarin Chinese learning platform

    2024 · mandarinai.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19

    Contribute to yunusabd/radio-transcription development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! In trying to improve my Chinese skills, I built this tool that lets me write a mix of Chinese and English, then recommends a proper Chinese expression. This is super helpful when I want to write something in Chinese but I don't know all the vocab/grammar - I can enter my best effort and use English for the parts I don't know. Really, the fundamental benefit of the tool is that it encourages me to exercise the writing muscle, rather than defaulting to translating from English. My goal was to build something that is fast, relatively inexpensive, and not prone to misleading people.…

    2024 · unscrambler.dpw.me · its alternatives →

  21. 21MW

    I've built mandoBot, a web app that segments and translates Mandarin Chinese text. This is a Django API (using Django-Ninja and PostgreSQL) and a NextJS front-end (with Typescript and Chakra). For a sample of what this app does, head to https://mandobot.netlify.app/?share_id=e8PZ8KFE5Y. This is my presentation of the first chapter of a classic story from the Republican era of Chinese fiction, Diary of a Madman by Lu Xun. Other chapters are located in the "Reading Room" section of the app. This app exists because reading Mandarin is very hard for learners (like me), since…

    2025 · mandobot.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Chinese prononciation AI tutor

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Physical mouth retraining, not more audio drills

    Jul 2026 · etsy.com · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    Scenario-based Chineselearning

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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