Practice that doesn't wait for class
Students run realistic conversation scenarios whenever they want, in Mandarin, French, Portuguese, and German.
Data-powered speaking practice and coaching
Speaking practice you can measure
Speaking is the hardest language skill to scale — and the hardest to measure.
Talio gives students structured conversation practice, then analyzes the speech signal itself: how long they speak between pauses, how fast, and how much of their vocabulary they actually use. Students get feedback they can act on. Programs get proficiency data they can trust.
In twenty years as a student of Mandarin, I’ve often struggled to keep advancing. Talio adapts to meet you where you are and pushes you to improve — useful for beginners, intermediate, and advanced learners alike.
Every program wants more speaking time. Few can measure what it produces.
Instructors can't sit with every student, and peer practice reinforces errors as often as it corrects them. Talio extends speaking practice beyond the classroom and reports back what actually happened.
- Most learners get only a few minutes of speaking time per class
- Feedback arrives days later, after the mistake has already settled in
- Peer practice reinforces incorrect language as often as it fixes it
- Completion grades say an assignment got done, not whether proficiency moved
Feedback from the speech signal, not just the transcript
Talio analyzes the audio itself — fluency, pacing, vocabulary range — and delivers feedback the moment a conversation ends, before mistakes become habits.
“I don't have enough time—or TAs—to give every student the speaking feedback they need. Talio fills that gap.”
Metrics from the fluency literature, not a black box
Feedback is at the heart of what Talio Language does, and it's something we don't blindly turn over to LLMs. We compute established measures from the fluency literature directly from each recording and track them over time, so students and teachers can see exactly where they are progressing.
Analysis includes things like:
- Mean Length of Run — How much you say between pauses — one of the strongest predictors of perceived fluency.
- Speaking rate — How quickly speech comes out, tracked session over session so growth is visible.
- Vocabulary & grammar diversity — Whether students are stretching into new vocabulary, tenses, and sentence structures — or recycling what feels safe.
“Students kept wanting to talk longer than the assignment required. The instant feedback is really precious — even a language partner can't do that.”
From data to coaching
All of that data is hard to internalize on your own. Talio translates it into concrete action items — specific skills to work on and specific scenarios to practice them in — so students always know exactly what to do next.
Grammar isn't the goal — communication is. Every action item ties back to what it unlocks for you as a speaker: mastering the passé composé isn't about passing a test, it's what lets you tell a story about the past.
Every scenario maps to CEFR can-do descriptors. As a student nears mastery, Talio prompts them to try the skill in a new setting.
Conversations so engaging, students forget who they're talking to
“The first time I chatted with the AI for almost an hour. It didn't just ask questions — when I wasn't sure how to answer, it gave me new ways to think about it.”
“I forgot I was talking to a computer.”
Talio's scenarios are structured enough to assign and open-ended enough that students stay in them, and students can rerun a scenario until the real version feels easy. The extra practice time shows up in the analytics too.
About Talio
Speaking practice built as a research instrument
Talio is a data and analytics surface for language conversation, in use in language courses at two R1 universities.
About Talio →LaunchPad 2026 finalist
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Built for institutional deployment
Talio is designed to meet the needs of universities, language programs, and professional language training organizations. Visit our Trust Center to learn more.
- SOC 2 Type I audit complete · Type II in progress
- Data processing agreements available for institutional partners
- Secure cloud infrastructure
- Student data encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest (AES-256)
- Designed with institutional privacy requirements in mind
- LMS integration (Canvas, LTI 1.3 grade passback) — coming soon
