Hi, I'm Jim Salsman, linkedin.com/in/jsalsman and jim@phoneclearly.com. I am providing spoken English pronunciation remediation on the telephone for three markets: (1) professional non-native English speakers who want to improve their comprehensibility on phone calls and teleconferencing for remote work; (2) English as a second language students of all ages who want to practice their pronunciation any time and place; and (3) speech language professionals who need telemedicine support for diagnosis and apraxia therapy. Please read our recent report and try the demo described at bit.ly/zoomphon

There are now many hundreds of millions more teleworkers and online distance education students than there were in 2019, resulting in this vast new market opportunity that the covid crisis has opened. Our customers will call a phone number and listen to instructions in English or their native language, and will be asked questions to answer and asked to pronounce words and phrases in English. Their response will be evaluated and spoken pronunciation remediation provided based on extensions to the techniques described in arxiv.org/pdf/1709.01713.pdf which we have ported to the SignalWire telephony platform. We hope to launch in February, 2023 or later, as soon as SignalWire begins supporting AMR-WB wideband audio from incoming phone calls. After a trial period or set number of remediation interactions, the learners will be sent a subscription payment PayPal link via SMS with which they can resume service.

We need (1) additional Python, PostgreSQL, and PayPal API developer(s); (2) marketers for outreach to crowdfunding investors, international mobile carriers, ESL learners, and related communities; (3) quality assurance technicians to help collect, listen to, and transcribe student audio responses. All employees may be expected to help with any such responsibilities temporarily.

Here are some videos of our work from 2010: youtu.be/WcgzJnqprC8 2011: youtu.be/OM2cydDtJXs and 2018: youtu.be/Bof5sJWZ100 And here is our first paid engineering employee demonstrating integration with Wiktionary in 2017: youtube.com/watch?v=8Euhu4Q7HF4&t=38m