Focus & Flow: Stutter Practice

Practice the speaking techniques that help with stuttering, and see whether you are doing them right. Many people who stutter learn a few techniques from a speech therapist: slow down, start each phrase gently, and let the voice run from one word into the next. Then they practice alone for months without knowing whether they are doing it well. Focus & Flow listens while you practice and shows you, as you speak: PACE A live marker shows your speaking pace against the band you choose: very slow, slow or natural. After each practice you see how much of the time you stayed inside your band. GENTLE STARTS Every phrase is marked as a gentle start, a hard start or in between. In Gentle starts mode you say one vowel word at a time and see the shape of your voice rising: a slow curve for a gentle start, a cliff for a hard one. FLOW A ribbon draws your voice as you speak and marks where it broke off in the middle of a phrase, so you can keep it flowing. THREE WAYS TO PRACTICE Read aloud: short openings of classic books, or your own book or page. Talk: speak freely about a topic card. Gentle starts: vowel words, one at a time. HEAR YOURSELF IN EARPHONES Choose Delay to hear your own voice a moment late, which helps many people speak more smoothly, or Pitch to hear it a little lower. Earbuds add their own delay, so the app measures yours and tells you the real delay you hear. NO NUMBER WHEN IT CANNOT BE SURE In a noisy place the app says so instead of guessing. A practice it could not measure still counts; it just has no numbers. WEEK BY WEEK After each practice you rate how your speech felt from 1 to 9. The progress screen shows your gentle starts, pace and flow week by week, next to your own rating, so you can see whether the practice is working. No account and no sign-in. The app listens only while you practice, never records or keeps your voice, and keeps just the numbers on your phone. You can delete them at any time. Focus & Flow is a practice companion. It does not diagnose or treat any condition, and it does not replace a speech therapist.