Chinese tone test
Two parts of 10 tasks: first name the tone you hear, then say a syllable into the microphone. At the end you see which tones you've got and which need practice.
- 1st — level
- 2nd — rising
- 3rd — dipping
- 4th — falling
Part 1: 10 syllables by ear. Part 2: 8 syllables by voice — you'll need a microphone. About two minutes.
Nothing is recorded or stored: your browser measures the pitch of your voice, and only those numbers are checked by our tone model.
Part 1. Which tone do you hear?
Part 2. Say the syllable
Your result
| By ear | By voice | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st — level | ||
| 2nd — rising | ||
| 3rd — dipping | ||
| 4th — falling |
Questions and answers
How does the tone check work?
Your browser measures how the pitch of your voice moves through the syllable, and our model, trained on thousands of native recordings, says which of the four tones it matches. How high your voice is doesn't matter — only how it moves.
Why does it get it wrong sometimes?
Noise, a quiet voice or a very short syllable make the tone hard to measure. Say the syllable a little longer, closer to the microphone, somewhere quiet. On clean native recordings the model names the tone about 96 times in 100.
Is my voice saved?
No. No recording leaves your device: only numbers describing how your voice rose and fell are sent.
What if I can't hear the tones apart?
That's normal at first. Listen to the same syllable in different tones, repeat aloud and check yourself. The Baozi app has a tone trainer: by ear, by voice and in words.
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