About YuiTalk
You have studied Japanese for years. You can read it, you can follow it — and the moment you have to speak, nothing comes out. That gap is why we built YuiTalk.
1. If you never speak, you never start
A language is not knowledge, it is muscle. You can memorise every word and every grammar point, and still freeze in front of a real person, because your mouth has never actually done the work.
Almost every Japanese learning tool trains your eyes and your ears and quietly skips your mouth — because getting someone to speak is hard. It needs somebody to listen, somebody to correct you, and the nerve to sound clumsy in front of them.
YuiTalk does one thing: it gets Japanese out of your mouth, and tells you straight away whether it was right.
2. Three things we believe
- Practice has to happen out loud. Every part of YuiTalk starts with holding down the microphone, not with picking an answer from a list.
- Feedback has to be immediate and specific. Which sound was off, which particle was wrong, how a native speaker would have said it — not a score out of ten.
- Mistakes are worth more than correct answers. What you get wrong is recorded and comes back tomorrow as a review item, until it stops being wrong.
3. Your voice stays on your phone
Practising out loud means handling your voice, and we decided how to handle it before we wrote the feature: speech recognition runs locally on your device, with the models downloaded alongside the app. Your recordings are not uploaded to our servers. With no network at all, shadowing practice still works.
That is an engineering decision rather than a slogan — it is why the app ships with well over a hundred megabytes of recognition models. The Privacy Policy sets out exactly what is processed and where.
4. Who we are
YuiTalk is built and operated by Shanghai Minute Technology Co., Ltd. (上海米努特科技有限公司). We are a small team — small enough that the people who build the product are the ones who read your email.
If something is broken, or you can see how it should be better, just write to us. It genuinely changes what we build next.
- Write to us
- aaron@yuitalk.com
- Company
- Shanghai Minute Technology Co., Ltd. (上海米努特科技有限公司)
- Address
- 2F, 2900 Nanhanggang Road, Fengxian District, Shanghai, China