Chinese Pronunciation

🀄 SayMandarin: AI Chinese Pronunciation Checker — by chinesepronunciation.app

Chinese tones are the hardest part of the language, and a textbook can't hear you. This chinese pronunciation tool for Chrome lets you select a word on any web page, say it aloud, and get feedback on the tones and sounds of each syllable.

🎯 What Chinese Pronunciation does

It checks one word at a time, right where you meet it. No copy-pasting, no new tab. You read chinese online, spot a word, and turn it into quick mandarin pronunciation practice.

🚀 How to pronounce chinese words with it in 3 steps

1. Select a word on any page: 1 to 4 chinese characters.
2. Right-click and choose Chinese Pronunciation. A small window opens on top of the page, so you stay where you are reading.
3. Press record, say the word and see your result.

That is the whole Chinese Pronunciation practice loop: select, say, see, try again.

📌 What Chinese Pronunciation shows before you speak

➤ The word in large hanzi.
➤ The target pinyin pronunciation with tone marks.
➤ A short tone sandhi note when two third tones meet inside the word.

📌 What you see after you speak

▸ For every syllable: the target tone and the one you actually said.
▸ On a mismatch, two simple shapes, you vs target, so a rising tone that should fall is easy to spot.
▸ A sounds score out of 100 for each syllable and overall.

🤔 5 reasons to check your mandarin pronunciation this way

1️⃣ Tones in chinese change meaning, and your own mistakes are hard to hear.
2️⃣ You practice words you actually need, from news, novels and forums.
3️⃣ Feedback comes per syllable, so you know exactly what to fix.
4️⃣ A mandarin pronunciation tool with one menu item and one window.
5️⃣ It works on the sites you already read.

👥 Who Chinese Pronunciation is for

- HSK learners checking new vocabulary before the exam.
- Beginners who still mix up the second and the third tone.
- Readers of news, novels and forums who meet new vocabulary every day.
- Heritage speakers who understand everything but want cleaner tones.
- Travelers who wonder how to pronounce zhou in Hangzhou or Suzhou.

🌍 Where it helps

♦️ Chinese food names on a menu page, before you order.
♦️ How to say chinese names from a news story or a work email.
♦️ A word from a web novel you read at night.
♦️ A station name when you plan a trip.

🔤 Pinyin pronunciation and tricky sounds

The sounds x, q and zh trip up almost every learner. Select the chinese hanzi, speak, and the checker tells you whether the sounds and the tone landed.

Xi chinese pronunciation is a classic trap: the x is nothing like the English x. The extension does not play a sample. It listens to you and shows where your sound and tone went.

🎧 Chinese 4 tones, one syllable at a time

The four Mandarin tones are what the checker judges, which makes for simple tone practice. A neutral syllable is shown but not judged.

Tone marks show the target, and the shapes show which tone was heard: the core of chinese pronunciation practice.

🔒 Privacy

• Your voice is sent to our server and to our speech partner only to score it. It is not stored.
• Chinese Pronunciation does not read the page and keeps nothing in your browser.
• No account and no sign-up.
• Privacy policy: chinesepronunciation.app/saymandarin-privacy/

❓ Frequently asked questions

❓ What is Chinese Pronunciation?
💡 A Chrome extension for chinese word pronunciation: highlight, speak, and see what to fix.

❓ How do you pronounce chinese words with it?
💡 Select 1 to 4 characters, right-click, choose Chinese Pronunciation, press record and read the word aloud.

❓ Which Mandarin tones does it check?
💡 All four, syllable by syllable. The neutral one is not judged.

❓ How to pronounce xi and how to pronounce qi?
💡 Select 西 or 气 on a page, say it, and see whether the sound and the tone landed.

❓ Can I use it as a chinese pronunciation app in class?
💡 Yes. Let a student say a word and show the tone shapes on screen.

❓ Does it help with HSK vocabulary?
💡 Yes. Use it on the vocabulary you meet every day.

❓ What if it could not hear me?
💡 It asks you once to try again.

❓ Is it good for daily mandarin pronunciation practice?
💡 Yes. A few checks a day, picked from what you read, keep it short and useful.

🌐 More tools and guides on pinyin and hanzi live on chinesepronunciation.app, linked at the bottom of the window.

✅ Pin Chinese Pronunciation, select a word on the next page you read, and say it. Better Mandarin pronunciation starts with one word.