Practise a Harver-style spoken English test: say words, read aloud, listen and repeat, then answer 2 questions, with pace, pause and CEFR estimate feedback.
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The Harver spoken language assessment, often called the Harver speaking test or voice assessment, checks how clearly and fluently you speak a language for a job, usually a phone-based customer-service role. It has two parts. In the scripted part you say single words, read a longer text aloud, and listen to a sentence before repeating it from memory; the audio can be replayed. In the spontaneous part you answer random questions out loud, 2 or 4 of them after a practice question, each within a set time. Employers choose which parts to use and how long the texts are.
Harver scores the recordings automatically for pronunciation and fluency, looking at speaking rate, pauses and hesitations, cadence and pitch, and its marketing also mentions word choice and grammar. Results are reported as a CEFR level, as PTE Academic and IELTS bands, or as a percentage, and Harver says the scoring was validated with IELTS examiners. The test runs in English, French, French Canadian, Spanish and Latin American Spanish.
Candidate Falcon’s practice follows the same structure in English with original words, texts and questions, and plays the listening sentences with your browser’s own voice. After each recording you see what a transcription heard, your pace in words per minute, the pauses longer than half a second and, for scripted tasks, which words were missed, added or changed. Free answers also get short feedback on fluency, vocabulary and grammar with a CEFR estimate. These are our estimates from a transcript and its timing: they do not judge pronunciation from the sound and are not Harver’s scoring.
It is a Harver test of spoken language for roles that involve talking to customers. You say words, read a text aloud and repeat sentences you hear, then answer questions in your own words. The recordings are scored automatically for pronunciation and fluency.
Harver’s help centre lists a scripted part, with single words, reading aloud and listen and repeat, and a spontaneous part with 2 or 4 random questions after a practice question. Employers choose which parts to include and how long the texts are.
Harver scores pronunciation and fluency automatically, including speaking rate, pauses, cadence and pitch, and reports a CEFR level, PTE Academic and IELTS bands or a percentage. Candidate Falcon’s practice gives its own estimates from a transcript of your answer and its timing, and says so; it does not measure pronunciation from the sound.
Harver asks you to redo an item when the recording is incomplete. The practice does the same: an empty, very short or half-finished recording is flagged so you can record it again.
Harver says the test works on a desktop or a mobile device with a microphone, and lists known problems with some browsers and headsets, such as Chrome on iPhone and AirPods. The practice works on phones too.
No. Each recording is sent once to be transcribed and scored, and is not stored. Your results stay on the page until you leave it, and only the summary numbers are saved to your practice history.
Independent practice by Candidate Falcon, based on Harver’s public product pages and help centre. Not affiliated with Harver, and not its scoring. The questions and scenarios are original, and practice results are not Harver scores. For how each Harver module works, timing and results, read the free Harver assessment guide.