# See development plans

Try free Ptichi exercises now. Explore plans for desktop apps, annotated practice texts, local checks and progress beyond a rehearsed script.

[Canonical page](https://ptichi.com/product/roadmap)

Ptichi is being built as a free desktop app for recording, feedback, repeated practice and local history. Recordings and core analysis stay on your device by default. Target platforms: macOS on Apple Silicon and Windows 11 x64. Public installers are not available yet; compatibility and release dates will be published after testing.

## Available now — free, without an account

Published exercises, practical guides, research explanations and inspectable project data are available on this site. Start with a [short speaking exercise](/practice/boundary-contrast), without recording. The [English cue-card helper](/goals/explain-clearly-at-work#speakable-brief-title) helps prepare a message; it does not record or analyse your voice.

For self-listening, use your own recorder and the [recorded-voice guide](/problems/why-your-recorded-voice-sounds-unfamiliar). This website does not ask for microphone permission.

## In development — guided practice programmes

We are developing sequences that connect a speaking goal, a small exercise and another attempt. The programme work now covers eight practical directions:

- **Voice Foundations** — thought groups, useful pauses, statement endings, question intonation, focus and pace.
- **Job Interview** — evidence-rich answers, thinking pauses, concise delivery and follow-up questions without sounding memorised.
- **Assessment & Case Defense** — recommendations, assumptions, trade-offs, numbers and challenge questions under time pressure.
- **Professional Storytelling** — clear work stories with a point, a turn, your contribution and an outcome, without manufactured drama.
- **Difficult Q&A** — clarification, pushback, misunderstanding repair and unexpected questions.
- **Explain Complex Things** — technical explanations, process walkthroughs, useful analogies and listener checks.
- **Spontaneous Speech** — planning while speaking, useful silence instead of filler spirals and structure without a script.
- **Data to Story** — explaining metrics, change, uncertainty and recommendations without reading the spreadsheet aloud.

Each programme is being built around a large bank of varied sentences and short responses, not one fixed demonstration script. We want enough changed wording to practise the same speaking skill without simply memorising the test.

Reference examples are also being designed as **communicative contrasts**: one or more natural ways to make the intended meaning clear, plus common overcorrections to avoid. We are not treating one pitch range, speaking rate, pause length or "confident voice" as a universal benchmark.

You can already use the first published set: [12 English Voice Foundations practice transcripts](/programs/transcripts). Each one includes a listener target, text to read aloud, one cue, marked rehearsal, changed-wording transfer and an overcorrection to avoid.

These are programme directions in development, not a claim that a complete programme library is available in the public app today.

A programme should help you practise, not merely give you more pages to read. We need to test whether the instructions make sense, whether a useful difference is audible, and whether it carries over to new words and later use.

## In development — macOS and Windows apps

The desktop project is being built for local recording, playback and comparison of attempts. The engineering targets are **macOS on Apple Silicon** and **Windows 11 x64**. Neither platform has a verified public installer yet.

Before a download is offered, its package, installation, microphone handling and first-use path need checks on that platform. We will publish actual compatibility and release information with the installer. We are not announcing a release date or support for Intel Macs, Windows ARM or older systems.

## Planned — prepared texts that know the exercise

Our next product direction is **a speech practice score**: a text with a clear purpose, useful markings and a defined question to check after speaking. Think of a score that helps you practise, not a script that demands one correct performance.

A passage could mark a thought boundary, a word carrying the contrast, or a final detail that the listener needs to catch. For example:

> We can start on **Friday** / but only after the **safety check**.

Here the exercise might ask whether the condition remains clear. The slash is an optional thought-boundary cue, not an instruction to pause for a fixed number of milliseconds. A different context may call for different emphasis.

The planned reading view will let you choose a programme or bring your own text, adjust the type size, move between sections and keep the material visible while practising. Reviewed official texts will have a version and a named technique. Private imported text will remain a separate source, not silently become reviewed training content. Editing a sentence will require reviewing its dependent markings; old recordings will retain the text version they used.

We intend to prepare and check official material before a session rather than make a generative model invent instructions while you speak. Optional automatic markup would be a draft to review, not an authority on your intended meaning.

## Planned — quiet live help, then one useful result

We want to test optional text following that tolerates repeated words, skipped lines, pauses and returning to an earlier section. When it loses its place, it should stop guessing and let you choose the section. Manual navigation must remain useful without a speech model.

Live support and coaching will have different jobs. During a take, the priority is preserving the recording and showing only necessary capture or reading help. Afterwards, the proposed result is one relevant passage, one supported observation or listening question, and one change to try. No running grade for your voice.

Automatic checks will need separate evidence for each technique, language and recording condition. Finding a word in the recording will not, by itself, prove that its emphasis was useful. A check that cannot be trusted should say so while leaving playback and self-listening available.

## Roadmap order — what earns the next step

These are planned outcomes and development gates, not release commitments. The eight programme directions above are a content map, not eight simultaneous engineering projects.

| Step | Intended outcome | What must be checked first |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Usable basics — in development | A clear microphone result; programmes and a free library; a readable text; saved recordings and a clear next action | A person can complete and reopen a practice session without help or lost audio |
| Prepared-text practice — planned | A small module on thought groups, meaningful focus and keeping the ending clear; one technique per attempt | Reviewed texts, understandable cues, exact text versions and an honest self-listening path |
| Local tracking and checks — experimental direction | Optional speech-following text and bounded automatic observations | Recovery from reading detours, language-specific accuracy, false feedback, memory use and delays on actual target computers |
| Beyond the script — planned | Less visual help, new wording, a later retest and eventually reusable authoring tools | Benefit beyond a recorder plus checklist, and a reason to return for a real speaking task |

## Benchmarks — planned tests, not a leaderboard

We plan to separate four questions: **Does the software behave correctly? Does a measurement agree with independently reviewed audio? Does it run reliably on this computer? Does the practice help a person?** Passing one will not count as passing the others.

Test cases should include correct attempts, harmless variation, missing evidence and situations where the app should give no correction. Results would name the tested version, language, recording conditions and limitations. A faster model is not automatically a better coach.

Progress should also distinguish completing a lesson, changing the rehearsed attempt, using the skill on new wording and keeping it later. We are not claiming that these planned benchmarks have been completed or that Ptichi has already demonstrated learning benefits.

## Free in the current phase

Current public materials and tools are free. Official programmes released in this phase are intended to be free too. There is no purchase required to try the website. Future commercial decisions, should they change, will be stated explicitly; “free now” does not mean “every future service free forever” or “open-source code”.

## Follow the work

This page is the public place to check the direction and availability. We do not have a release-notification signup on this page, so following this link does not subscribe you to anything.

Try a real exercise, notice where the instructions help or get in the way, and compare what you learn with the published limits. Real use should shape what we build next. A long feature list cannot substitute for that.

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