Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about what Awaaz does today.
What is Awaaz?
Awaaz is a speech-practice platform for Urdu and English speakers. It offers a guided Speech Check, practice activities matched to your goals, and a private record of your progress.
Who can use it?
Children (with a parent or caregiver), teenagers, adults, families and speech-language therapists. Each person can have their own profile on a shared device.
Does Awaaz diagnose speech disorders?
No. Awaaz describes patterns it detected in a few recordings and suggests practice. Only a qualified professional can assess or diagnose a speech or language difficulty.
How does the speech check work?
You say a short set of words, one at a time. Each recording is compared with the target word sound by sound. Your profile shows what Awaaz could observe, what it couldn’t, and why.
Do I need a therapist to use Awaaz?
No. You can practise on your own. If you have concerns about your own or your child’s speech, a speech-language therapist is the right person to talk to, and Awaaz can help you share your practice history with them.
Can a parent help a child practise?
Yes. Parents can set up a profile for their child, practise together, and read guides on encouraging without pressure. Younger children can use the playful jungle mode.
Can I use Awaaz in Urdu?
Yes. The whole interface is available in Urdu. Scoring in Urdu currently covers a limited set of sounds, listed on our science page.
What happens to my voice recordings?
Each recording is sent over an encrypted connection to the Awaaz scoring service, analysed, and not kept there. On your device, a recording is saved only if you choose to save it.
Can I delete my recordings?
Yes. You can delete any saved recording, or all of them at once, from My Voice Recordings or from Privacy in your profile. Saved recordings are also removed automatically after the period you choose.
Does Awaaz work without a strong internet connection?
Once you have opened it, Awaaz keeps working on a weak connection and your history stays on your device. Scoring a recording needs a connection, and Awaaz tells you before you record if it can’t reach the scoring service.
How much does it cost?
Awaaz currently has no paid features and never asks for payment details.
How can a therapist collaborate with a user?
A therapist can create a practice plan link and share it with a client, who decides whether to add it. Clients can export a report of the practice they choose to share. There are no shared accounts yet.
Why is audio recorded?
To compare how each word was said with the target word. Nothing else.
Is the audio stored?
The scoring service analyses each recording and does not keep it. On your device, a recording is saved only if you choose to save it.
Are recordings kept for later review?
Only the ones you save, and only for the period you choose (30 days unless you change it).
Who can access the information?
Your profile and results live in this browser on this device. Awaaz has no account server that holds them.
Can I share a report?
Yes. You can print or save a report as a PDF and decide who receives it.
How do I delete things?
Delete any recording, a whole check, or your entire profile from Profile, then Privacy.
Is my voice used for research?
No. Awaaz does not use your recordings for research or to train any model.