ELSA Speak vs Pear Deck

ELSA Speak (English Language Speech Assistant) is an AI-powered English pronunciation coach that listens to you speak and gives instant, detailed feedback on how to sound clearer and more natural. Using speech-recognition technology trained on the speech of non-native learners, ELSA pinpoints exactly which sounds, syllables and stress patterns you're getting wrong — down to individual phonemes — and shows you how to fix them, something generic language apps can't do.

You practice through short lessons, real-world dialogues, and repeat-after-me exercises, with ELSA scoring your pronunciation in real time and tracking improvement over time. It targets the specific difficulty non-native spea…

Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool for teachers that turns ordinary slides into active lessons. It works as an add-on for Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint: you add interactive questions to your slides, present them, and every student answers on their own device in real time.

Teachers see all responses live on a private dashboard, so they can spot misunderstandings immediately and adjust the lesson. Question types include multiple choice, text, numbers, drawing and draggable answers, and student names can be hidden when results are projected so everyone feels safe to participate. A library of ready-made templates and AI-assisted features helps teachers create engaging questi…