# Speaking Coach

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-oleksiidotsenko-english-exam-coach-speaking-coach`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [OleksiiDotsenko](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/oleksiidotsenko)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [OleksiiDotsenko](https://github.com/OleksiiDotsenko)
- **Source:** https://github.com/OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach/tree/main/plugins/english-exam-coach/skills/speaking-coach

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-oleksiidotsenko-english-exam-coach-speaking-coach
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Speaking Coach

Terminal-friendly speaking practice: **record or perform → transcribe →
evaluate**. Paths are relative to `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` (if unset, resolve
relative to this file).

## When to use

The user wants a speaking task, mock speaking interview, or feedback on an
answer they spoke (pasted as transcript or provided as an audio file).

## Steps

1. **Identify** exam + level + part. Load `data/exam-formats/.md`
   and `data/cefr/speaking-descriptors.md`. Seed shapes:
   `data/item-bank/seed/speaking-tasks.md` (imitate format, never reuse).

2. **Generate the task** with the exam's real prep/speaking times (e.g.
   IELTS Part 2: 1 min prep, 1–2 min talk; TOEFL interview answers: 45 s
   each with no preparation time).
   Tell the user how to respond, in order of preference:
   - **record themselves** (any voice recorder) and paste an accurate
     transcript, noting hesitations/self-corrections honestly;
   - or speak first and then type from memory (say that this loses fluency
     information);
   - for a paired-format task (collaborative discussion), play the partner:
     alternate short turns with the user in chat.

3. **Evaluate the transcript** against the five paraphrased CEFR aspects
   (range, accuracy, fluency, interaction, coherence) and the exam's
   criteria structure. From text alone, fluency and pronunciation are only
   partly observable — judge fluency from fillers/self-corrections if the
   transcript preserves them, and say so; only comment on pronunciation the
   user asks about or reports ("I struggle with th-").

4. **Return:** (a) estimate as a range + CEFR level; (b) 3–5 prioritized
   fixes with *your phrase → stronger phrase* rewrites from the user's own
   answer; (c) one upgraded model answer fragment (2–3 sentences, next level
   up); (d) one follow-up question to re-drill the weakest point now.

5. **Log the attempt** (silently):
   ```bash
   python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/progress-tracker/scripts/log_attempt.py" \
     --exam  --skill speaking-coach --task-type  \
     --level  --band-estimate "-" --cefr-estimate  \
     --seconds 
   ```
   For TOEFL estimate the 1–6 band scale: `--score  --max 6`
   (half bands allowed; official CEFR alignment: 4 ≈ B2, 5 ≈ C1, 6 = C2).

## Boundaries

- Never claim to hear audio you cannot access; if an audio file is provided
  and cannot be transcribed in this environment, ask for a transcript
  instead of inventing one.
- Descriptors are paraphrased public CEFR only; no official rubrics.
- Estimates are indicative ranges, never official scores.
- Do not log attempts the user didn't make.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [OleksiiDotsenko](https://github.com/OleksiiDotsenko)
- **Source:** [OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach](https://github.com/OleksiiDotsenko/english-exam-coach)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-oleksiidotsenko-english-exam-coach-speaking-coach
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/oleksiidotsenko
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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