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Step into a real situation — a restaurant, a market stall, a job interview — and talk your way through it with an AI that stays in character. A coach has your back while you talk, and a few minutes later you know exactly what to practice next.
Your first conversation is free: 3 minutes, no card needed.
See it in action
The waiter has just asked what you’d like, and the floor is yours. Your goal sits above the call, the transcript builds beside it, and the coach waits quietly in case a line doesn’t land.
What banter is
Most apps teach you to recognize a language. banter makes you produce it, under a little pressure, in the situations you’re learning it for. Pick a scene, talk for a few minutes, and find out exactly where it fell apart — and what to say next time.
No flashcards, no multiple choice. You speak out loud to an AI playing a part — a waiter, a receptionist, an interviewer — and it answers what you actually said.
The dish is sold out. The booking is wrong. The stallholder won’t budge. Scenes take turns you didn’t rehearse, because that’s the part a textbook can’t teach.
A coach beside the call when something doesn’t come across, and afterwards a score built from parts you can name, with corrections quoted in your own words.
Sign in, pick one of five languages, and set how hard you want to be pushed — from a patient partner who helps you out to one who won’t slow down. Then pick a scene.
They speak, you answer, out loud. Interrupt them, ask them to repeat, change your mind. They stay in character whatever you throw at them.
If something you say doesn’t come across, your coach tells you straight away and offers a phrase that would. Stuck for words? Ask for a line.
A score out of 100 built from parts you can name, corrections that quote your own words, and the mistakes that keep coming back.
What’s inside
Each one has a goal to achieve and a character with their own manner — and something may go sideways once the conversation has found its feet.
Set how hard they make you work before you start. It changes how fast they talk, the words they use, how much they help — and how quickly your coach steps in.
Your AI conversation partner never breaks character. Your coach sits beside the call and speaks up only when something genuinely didn’t come across — then offers a phrase that would. Stuck for words? Ask for a line.
It’s a conversation, so it behaves like one: talk over them and they stop, ask them to repeat and they will, change your mind halfway through and they’ll keep up. And they wind the scene up naturally as your time runs down.
Live captions run the whole time, so you can see the words you only half-caught — and spot when you’ve been misheard.
Every scene is written for every language — opening lines and useful phrases authored for each, not machine-translated from English.
Every conversation is saved with its transcript and score. Your history charts the trend and rolls up the mistakes that keep coming back, so you fix the pattern rather than the sentence.
It’s your data: export all of it, or delete your account and everything with it, from your account page at any time.
Not a gold star. The number is built from parts you can name — how smoothly you spoke, how quickly you answered, your pronunciation, your grammar, your range, and whether you actually got the job done — so it tells you where the next ten points are.
Example result
IllustrationYou said: “Quiero un mesa”
Better: “Quería una mesa”
Mesa is feminine — and quería is the polite way to ask.
No. The gentle level speaks slowly, uses everyday words, and helps you out when you stall — and your coach offers a phrase whenever something doesn’t come across. If you can say hello, you can start.
Your AI conversation partner never breaks character — that’s what makes it feel real. Your coach sits beside the call and only speaks up when something genuinely didn’t communicate. Grammar slips wait for the end, where they’re quoted back with the fix.
Your microphone audio streams straight from your browser to Amazon Transcribe, which turns it into text, and the audio of each thing you say passes once through banter to Microsoft Azure AI Speech for scoring, which returns numbers only. banter keeps the transcript and the scores; neither banter nor Microsoft keeps the recording. You can export or delete everything we hold from your account page at any time.
It weighs how fluently you spoke, how quickly you responded, your pronunciation, your grammar, your vocabulary range, and whether you achieved the goal in the right tone. Pronunciation is scored by Microsoft Azure AI Speech: accuracy, fluency and completeness for each thing you say, and an accuracy score for each word. The recording isn’t kept. Pronunciation makes up 15% of the Banter Score. It’s a guide to what to practice, not a certificate.
No. Everyone you meet in a scene — the waiter, the receptionist, the interviewer — is an AI playing a part, and banter says so before you start. On the Studio plan it appears as a photoreal video partner; the free conversation and the Practice plan use an animated face.
Every account gets one free conversation, and it lasts 3 minutes. On the Practice and Studio plans, each session runs up to 5 minutes.
Sign in with your email — no password, no card — choose a language and a level, and pick your first scene.