Best AI apps to practice English | ELSA vs PI

Hello awesome people! Today I was asked to compare two apps and see which is the best one to help you practice English speaking. And get ready because the results weren't exactly what I expected. I prepared three special tools. The first is my phone and I'm ready to try these apps to see which one performs best. The second is a tool that I created personally to measure the two apps in terms of how much they cost, how easy they are to use, if and how they correct your pronunciation and how much they help to build your vocabulary. This should definitely be enough so that we can understand which one is the real king of the AI apps to train your speaking skills. Yes, I mentioned a third tool because to perform this task I need my testing hat. So if you're ready let's begin. So before we even begin we have to realize that we have to download these apps and I already know that there are some problems here because many of us live in countries where we can't download any app we want. But there's a way, there's a way to turn around this little issue and get you these apps. I've got introduced to a special website called apkpure which I want to show you right now. This website is perfect to download any app from any country. If you just click on the lens up here and you can see I've already tried, you can type in Elsa speak and you find it right here. The same goes for PAI. If you search for PAI AI once again it's the first one you just press download and you continue. So with this out of the way let's begin by measuring how much they cost. So step one downloading PAI. All right so I just downloaded the app and we're already inside it. Apparently there's nothing that's stopping me from starting a conversation straight away. I see a phrase right here over the screen and if I want to start a conversation I just need to press this button. This means that PAI is definitely free. Awesome! Let's see what happens when I try to download Tesla. But let's see what happens when I try to download Elsa. So I'm going ahead and install that and we're in. So your personal AI English pronunciation coach. I already like this one. I already like the idea that there's a pronunciation coach right there for me. This is definitely something that I would want to have and so let's press on start. Let's see what's going on here. Why do you want to use Elsa? Cool! It's asking me to repeat something straight away. Can you see? Speak this sentence. All right. Hi Elsa I can't wait to improve my English speaking skills. You sound 77% like a native speaker. Okay I like this one. Okay I really like this app. Let's press continue. What's your native language? And my native language is Italian. Yeah Italiano. Why are you practicing English? Let's go for job opportunities. What's your English level? Well let's go with intermediate. Yeah intermediate. And oh what's your practice goal? This is interesting. This is interesting because it already is. It's already telling you that this is something to do daily. All right. As you can see here. As you can see. All right. You have 10 minute practice, 15 minute practice, 20 minute practice daily. All right. Per day. Not just once per week. This needs to be clear. Right. So in my case I want to go with medium practice. I got 15 minutes to spare. Let's do this. When's a good time? Oh I love that. I love that. It's also asking you when do you want to practice. That's extremely important. 9 p.m. Nah it's definitely too late for me. Let's go way before that. Let's... I usually wake up at 6 but I don't really feel like talking at that time. Let's hit next. And we got some price going on. All right. So I'm gonna go with a free trial. How about that? But we already know that there's a cost for it. All right. So it's time to understand who wins this first round. We already know that PAI is for free. As soon as you download the app you can start speaking straight away. So I'm gonna give 10 points to PAI for this. Thank you PAI for letting us use your app for free. Whereas Elsa. Well Elsa you have to pay something for it. I'm gonna give it anyway a 6 because from the start it looks professional and a pretty good help. Now next one is. Is it easy to use? So PAI first. As soon as you get into the app you get greeted with something like. Hey there. Great to meet you. I'm PAI. Your personal AI. My goal is to be useful friendly and fun. Ask me for advice or answers or let's talk about whatever is on your mind. How's your day going? This is a very straightforward approach. There's no setup. You just go straight into talking. Just like you were talking with another human being. So let's move around the app a little bit. I see these three dots up here and they just capture my attention. Use me as an extension of your mind to reflect on new perspectives and you'd hear me in this voice. Okay. I particularly like this voice. His voice is full and rounded. Yeah. As you can see there's something very very very important all of us need which is the playback speed because it can go a little slower. I can write stories, brainstorm ideas or explore today's news and I can sound like this if you choose. Okay but if you feel super confident and you want to challenge yourself how about we go super fast. I can write stories, brainstorm ideas or explore today's news and I can sound like this if you choose. This is awesome because it's challenging and it trains you to understand when somebody's speaking with you at full speed. All right let's go with this one. We decided on this one and then what else? We can just begin. Okay so how's your day going? Hey there my day is going great. I'm in the process right now of showing you to my beautiful audience who want to know their best way for practicing English speaking and I'm comparing you with Elsa Speak. It's great to hear that you're doing well. Also exciting that you're showcasing me to your audience. Elsa Speak can be valuable tools for practicing English speaking depending on what the user is looking for. While I can engage in personalized conversations and provide varied responses, Elsa Speak focuses on pronunciation training and offers detailed feedback. It really comes down to what suits the individual best. All right in terms of how easy it is to use I will give another 10 points to Pi because you're jumping in a conversation as soon as you get inside the app and unfortunately for Elsa at the moment I can only sit on five, merely on the promise of great pronunciation corrections. So, so far if you want to practice English speaking Pi AI seems the most logical choice because well you don't have many strings attached and you can just speak freely like you would with another human being. But is really Pi all rainbows and unicorns? Let's see how well they correct your pronunciation. This time let's begin with Elsa. Since Pi told us how great she is with correcting your pronunciation my expectations are really high here. Let's try to study by topic and let's go over a small talk. Nice. Your turn microphone icon and then speak the phrase. Nice. Okay. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Right. Live. Live. Almost correct. Cafeteria. Cafeteria. Thank you. Restaurant. Restaurant. A few of us are heading to the cafeteria for lunch. Wanna come? Actually I brought leftovers today. Nice. What did you bring? I made a big pot of couscous with fresh veggies last night. All right. I can see how Elsa can really help you improve your pronunciation. Using repetition is a very smart move as you achieve two incredible results. First, you learn a new word. Second, you practice its pronunciation straight from the start. And this is exactly the same way I used to become fluent. Literally every single time I found a new word I was repeating it back. Then I was trying to use the same word in a million different contexts. So Elsa seems a very tough cookie to beat. Let's see how Pi can deal with this. Hey there. Can you help improve my pronunciation? For example, if I said pronunciation, could you really detect it as something wrong? For example, if you said pronunciation instead of pronunciation, I would let you know that pronunciation is incorrect and provide you with the correct pronunciation. This way you can improve pronunciation skills over time. It's time to update the score. Clearly Pi doesn't really provide this particular feature. This app relies a lot on the way you type the word down rather than actually listening to the way you pronounce something. So here Elsa wins. Yep, definitely it does win. Not only does it correct your pronunciation, but it helps you moving forward. Now, does it help with expanding the vocabulary? All right, let's begin with Pi and let's give it a chance to redeem itself. So to try this feature, I'm going to start a conversation and then I'm going to ask the meaning of a particular word. So Pi, can you please tell me the best way possible to improve your pronunciation in the least amount of time? Okay, why did you stop speaking? And this isn't even the first time that happens actually. But anyway, I'm really curious to see what Elsa can do for your vocabulary. Okay, look at this. Elsa AI conversations, refund status inquiry. If it's really this good, this is something to really try out. You are a customer support agent at a retail company. Your role is to assist a customer who is frustrated about the status of a refund. Verify their information, confirm the refund status, and provide an update. Start with let's verify your information and check on the status of your refund. Let's verify your information and check on the status of your refund. Okay, thank you. Ah, this is all on me. All right, so now we're talking. So can you begin with telling me your name, please? My name is Sarah. Can you also provide a last name, please? My last name is Smith. All right, Sarah. Nice to meet you. My name is Albert and I'm here to help you. When were you supposed to receive the refund? I was supposed to receive the refund three weeks ago. That seems like a long time ago. Okay, let me check if I can be of any help. Yes, it is quite frustrating to have to wait this long for a refund. Any updates would be greatly appreciated. Hi, Sarah. I just checked with the refund department and they are telling me that the refund is on its way and they also apologize for the delay and they are giving you a free or they are giving you a 30% discount on your next purchase with us. Would you be happy with this? Yes, I would appreciate the discount. Thank you for informing me. Is there an estimated date of when the refund will arrive? It should be arriving by tomorrow 3 p.m. and I'll be personally get in touch with you in case this doesn't happen. Thank you for letting me know. I appreciate your help. Roleplay completed. Well done. We are computing your feedback. All right, I have to say that Elsa's roleplay feature is extremely cool. So Pi gets a nice 7 this time whereas Elsa, well, this time Elsa completely nailed it. Well done. When it comes to vocabulary, I can really say that both the apps are absolutely great. Pi is great because it gives you the possibility of listening new words, expressions and idioms even in context. So if you're able to pick them up, then you can use them in other phrases. But the process is not guided, meaning if you don't pick that particular expression, Pi is not making any effort to help you out. On the other hand, Elsa Speak does a great job with that because by repeating whatever the app is suggesting you, we are already acquiring the new words because you listen, you repeat back those words and phrases. And if you're ready, we're now about to see the clear winner of today's test. And today's winner is Elsa. Congratulations to the developers of Elsa for creating such an amazing product. But all in all, we haven't even tried Pi. And the reason for all of those glitches is deeper than I thought. In fact, upon editing this video, I made some research and I discovered that the creators of the app have essentially abandoned Pi and are now focused on other projects. At the same time, my friend, when one door closes, another one opens. And what a door, my friend. I mean, Elsa is a very solid and extremely useful app. With it, you can easily build your vocabulary with a lot of very, very useful words and phrases. And the role play game, that's fantastic. In fact, I was so happy that I spoke with the guys at Elsa Speak and they gave me a very good discount I can share with you. So take my advice. If you want to improve your image for work, go check the link I left down here. If on the other hand, you still feel like watching some other videos, then watch this other one where I'm going to show you a very simple study plan to include English speaking in your daily routine using AI. So whichever app you decide to use, you know what steps to take to reach your fluency goals. See you in there.