IELTSpeaking reports are preparation feedback. An official IELTS band is awarded through the official test process. This page describes how to inspect a practice result and the current public validation status; it does not claim a certified examiner score.
What evidence to inspect
Check that the report belongs to the correct recording and questions. Compare the transcript with the audio before accepting text corrections. Grammar and vocabulary comments should identify examples. Fluency and pronunciation judgements require listening to the recording; a transcript alone is insufficient.
Microphone quality, background noise, recognition errors, accent coverage, answer length and question choice can affect an estimate. The public criteria organise the feedback; they do not make an AI system an official examiner.
Public validation status
As of 23 October 2026, no product-specific blind human-comparison study, per-criterion error table or guaranteed error range is published on this site. No accuracy percentage or promise of an official band is made here. The public sample is labelled as an illustration and is not validation evidence.
Requirements for a future validation release
A useful release must state the sample size, score and accent distribution, question coverage, consent and anonymisation process, audio conditions, and the exact scoring version and evaluation date. Multiple qualified human raters should independently assess the same recordings without seeing the AI results. A separate held-out set should be used for evaluation.
Report human-to-human disagreement alongside AI-to-human mean absolute error, the share within half a band, per-criterion results and failures by subgroup. Describe exclusions and uncertainty. Do not turn a demonstration report or a few selected successes into an accuracy claim.
When to seek human review
If the transcript is wrong, the comments cannot be located in the audio or repeated estimates disagree substantially, treat the result cautiously. Ask a qualified teacher to inspect the recording before using a disputed estimate for an important preparation decision.
View the illustrative reportOfficial IELTS Speaking band descriptors
