mcpbeat Sign in

Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS MCP Server

answering

Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 10 tools. Last commit 3 Aug 2026.

Pronunciation scoring, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech for language learning

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 80%
91 days agonow
97.8%
Uptime 24h
90 of 92 checks
10
Tools
read from the server
633 ms
Response time
average over 24h
3
Stars
last commit 3 Aug 2026

Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 96.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add speech-ai --transport http https://apim-ai-apis.azure-api.net/mcp/pronunciation/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://apim-ai-apis.azure-api.net/mcp/pronunciation/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.speech-ai]
url = "https://apim-ai-apis.azure-api.net/mcp/pronunciation/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "speech-ai": {
      "url": "https://apim-ai-apis.azure-api.net/mcp/pronunciation/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "speech-ai": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://apim-ai-apis.azure-api.net/mcp/pronunciation/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 10

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

transcribe
transcribe_audio
Transcribe audio to text with word-level timestamps. Converts spoken English audio into text with optional word-level timestamps and per-word confidence scores. Args: audio_base64: Base64-encoded audio data (WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, WebM). audio_format: Audio format hint. Auto-detected from magic bytes if omitted. include_timestamps: Whether to include word-level timing (default: true). Returns: dict with keys: - text (str): Full decoded transcript - words (list): Per-word results with timestamps, each containing: - word (str): The transcribed word - start (float): Start time in seconds - end (float): End time in seconds - confidence (float 0-1): Word-level confidence - audioDurationMs (int): Audio duration in milliseconds - metadata (dict): Processing time, audio length, model version - audioQuality (dict): Audio metrics (SNR, peak/RMS dB, etc.)
transcribe_audio_pro
Transcribe audio with Whisper Large V3 Turbo — multilingual STT. Supports 99 languages with automatic language detection, word-level timestamps, per-word confidence scores, and optional speaker diarization (identifies who spoke each word). Best-in-class WER (~2%). Args: audio_base64: Base64-encoded audio (WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, WebM). language: Language code. Auto-detected if omitted. Supports 99 languages. diarize: Enable speaker diarization (default: false). When true, each word includes a speaker label (e.g. SPEAKER_00, SPEAKER_01). Returns: dict with keys: - text (str): Full decoded transcript - words (list): Per-word results with timestamps, each containing: - word (str), start (float), end (float), confidence (float 0-1) - speaker (str|null): Speaker label when diarize=true - speakers (dict|null): Speaker info with count and labels - audioDurationMs (int): Audio duration in milliseconds - metadata (dict): Processing time, language, languageProbability - audioQuality (dict): Audio metrics (SNR, peak/RMS dB, etc.)
tts
check_tts_service
Check if the text-to-speech service is healthy and ready. Returns: dict with keys: - status (str): 'healthy' or error state - modelLoaded (bool): Whether the TTS model is loaded - version (str): API version
list_tts_voices
List all available text-to-speech voices with metadata. Returns: dict with keys: - voices (list): Available voices, each with id, name, gender, accent, grade - defaultVoice (str): Default voice ID
assess
assess_pronunciation
Assess English pronunciation quality from audio. Scores pronunciation at four levels: overall, sentence, word, and phoneme. Each score is 0-100. Phonemes are returned in both IPA and ARPAbet notation. Sub-300ms inference latency. Args: audio_base64: Base64-encoded audio data. Supports WAV, MP3, OGG, and WebM formats. text: The reference English text that the speaker was expected to read aloud. audio_format: Audio format hint — one of 'wav', 'mp3', 'ogg', 'webm'. Defaults to 'wav'. Returns: dict with keys: - overallScore (int 0-100): Overall pronunciation quality - sentenceScore (int 0-100): Sentence-level fluency and accuracy - words (list): Per-word scores, each containing: - word (str): The word - score (int 0-100): Word pronunciation score - phonemes (list): Per-phoneme scores with IPA/ARPAbet notation - decodedTranscript (str): What the model heard (ASR transcript) - transcript (str): Reference text - confidence (float 0-1): Scoring confidence - warnings (list[str]): Quality warnings if any - audioQuality (dict): Audio metrics (SNR, peak/RMS dB, etc.)
phoneme
get_phoneme_inventory
Get the full phoneme inventory supported by the pronunciation scorer. Returns a list of all English phonemes the engine can assess, including ARPAbet symbol, IPA equivalent, example word, and phoneme category (vowel, consonant, diphthong). Returns: list of dicts, each with keys: - arpabet (str): ARPAbet symbol (e.g. 'AA', 'TH') - ipa (str): IPA notation - example (str): Example word containing the phoneme - category (str): vowel, consonant, or diphthong
pronunciation
check_pronunciation_service
Check if the pronunciation assessment service is healthy and ready. Returns: dict with keys: - status (str): 'healthy' or error state - modelLoaded (bool): Whether the scoring model is loaded - version (str): API version
stt
check_stt_service
Check if the speech-to-text service is healthy and ready. Returns: dict with keys: - status (str): 'healthy' or error state - modelLoaded (bool): Whether the STT model is loaded - version (str): API version
synthesize
synthesize_speech
Generate natural speech audio from English text. Produces high-quality speech with 12 English voices. Returns base64-encoded WAV audio (16-bit PCM, 24kHz mono) along with metadata. Available voices: - af_heart (default), af_bella, af_nicole, af_sarah, af_sky (American female) - am_adam, am_michael (American male) - bf_emma, bf_isabella (British female) - bm_george, bm_lewis, bm_daniel (British male) Args: text: English text to synthesize (1-5000 characters). voice: Voice ID. See list above. Defaults to 'af_heart'. speed: Speed multiplier from 0.5 to 2.0 (default: 1.0). Returns: dict with keys: - audio_base64 (str): Base64-encoded WAV audio (16-bit PCM, 24kHz) - duration_ms (str): Audio duration in milliseconds - voice (str): Voice ID used - text_length (str): Input text character count - processing_ms (str): Synthesis time in milliseconds
whisper
check_whisper_service
Check if the Whisper STT Pro service is healthy and ready. Returns: dict with keys: - status (str): 'healthy' or error state - modelLoaded (bool): Whether the Whisper model is loaded - diarizeLoaded (bool): Whether the diarization pipeline is loaded - version (str): API version - modelName (str): Whisper model name (e.g. 'large-v3-turbo')

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://apim-ai-apis.azure-api.net/mcp/pronunciation/mcp streamable-http answering 572 ms 3 min ago

Alternatives to Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS

same job, measured the same way
Sunbird AI
by sunbird

African-language translation, chat, speech-to-text and text-to-speech from Sunbird AI.

answering
Cyberwarex Voice Stt
by cyberpunk11147

Speech-to-text transcription for AI agents.

local only
Speakeroo speaking coach
by speakeroo

AI speaking coach: feedback on speeches from text or audio, plus topics, pronunciation and rubrics.

7 tools answering
mazdek AI — Kurdish Language Tools
by mazdek

Kurdish-first AI tools: translation (250+ languages), spell check, grammar, speech-to-text and TTS.

answering
VocalLab
by vocallab

Text to speech in 200+ languages, voice cloning, voice design and SRT captions.

answering
Tiktok Transcript Scraper
by deapi-ai

AI speech-to-text for public TikTok videos: SRT, VTT, word timings, speaker labels, 90+ languages.

answering
MCP File Processor
by opafex

Text extraction, keyword extraction, language detection, and chunking for RAG

287 installs/wk local only
MCP File Processor
by intelagentstudios

Text extraction, keyword extraction, language detection, and chunking for RAG

43 installs/wk local only

Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS do?
It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: assess_pronunciation, check_pronunciation_service, check_stt_service, check_tts_service, check_whisper_service, get_phoneme_inventory and 4 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
What is Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around tts and transcribe. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 90 of 92 checks got a reply (97.8%), average response time 633 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS need an API key?
No. Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS?
It answers our handshake in 633 ms on average, which is faster than 16% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Speech AI - Pronunciation, STT & TTS open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript, 3 stars on GitHub and 24 open issues. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at apim-ai-apis.azure-api.net, which runs on its operator's own terms.