We turn pronunciation into a readiness signal inside American Language Course (ALC) and Applied English Skills for Oral Proficiency (AESOP) pathways: International Military Students (IMS) speak clearly enough for Follow-On Training (FOT), radio, and joint operations — faster, with less instructor burn.
Two outcomes drive adoption: a clearer path towards oral speaking gates, and less friction between US English-speaking instructors and partner operators on radio and in live instruction — intelligibility and comprehensibility, not accent cosmetics.
Students can clear reading and listening and still fail Oral Proficiency Interview gates, including the Oral Proficiency Interview by Computer and Oral Proficiency Interview — English formats (OPI / OPI-E). Aviation and other language-critical courses demand oral ratings. Miss those gates and you burn International Military Education and Training (IMET) and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) seats and funds.
English spelling does not predict English sound. Trainees read through the rules of their first language and, under operational load, speech fails. This is pipeline and communication risk, not a soft skill issue. OPI capacity is costly and rater-constrained, and programmes already buy oral precision time in AESOP and Oral Proficiency Skills for Aviation (OPSAV) blocks.
No International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). No new alphabet. The engine rewrites words so trainees read as they already read, produce more intelligible speech, and practise between scarce instructor hours.
Use inside ALC, AESOP, OPSAV, and instructor-led practice, instead of replacing current courses.
Not a substitute English school for IMET continental United States (CONUS) seats, which remain with the Defense Language Institute English Language Center (DLIELC).
Does not replace ECL or OPI. It improves day-to-day oral readiness between assessments.
Defense Language Institute English Language Center and DELP programmes, including oral instructors at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland and Air Education and Training Command / 637th Training Group (AETC / 637 TRG).
Security Cooperation Organization (SCO) training managers and in-country English Language Training Program (ELTP) leads.
ALC-bound contractors delivering partner ELT under FMS and outside the continental United States (OCONUS) vehicles.
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) and Command Language Program Manager (CLPM) foreign-language sustainment work.
Consumer language apps and hobbyist learners.
Pronunciation practice inside ALC and AESOP workflows, with respelling that requires no new script.
Measurable oral practice volume between scarce instructor hours, focused on pronunciation interference reduction.
A path to score success against oral intelligibility and OPI-linked outcomes, not vanity engagement metrics.
Claims are tested in pilot design. We do not claim historic instructor-hour reductions; we test whether hours can be saved or reallocated.
Success metrics are agreed in writing before launch. Priority order:
Lower pronunciation interference and clearer speech under operational conditions.
Progress towards OPI speaking criteria and reduced oral-gate fail risk.
Shorter time-to-criterion and fewer remediation weeks where applicable.
Instructor hours saved or reallocated are pilot test outputs, not claimed past results.
No vanity dashboards. No claim that we replace OPI or ECL.
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