The practice room for people learning a language. Show up, start talking, and Vovi keeps the conversation going when you get stuck.
At any hour, in any timezone, somebody's learning the same language as you and looking for someone to talk to. Vovea matches you to that person.
Pick the language you’re learning and a time window. Show up. Vovea opens a room when someone else at your level is ready to practice.
Press one button. Vovea pairs you with someone learning the same language at the same level — sometimes from the next city, sometimes from the next continent.
30 to 60 minutes of real conversation in your target language. Vovi rides shotgun — feeding you a word when you’re stuck, gauging level, asking the right question to keep things moving.
Every call has Vovi. How Vovi shows up depends on the room.
Two people learning the same language, practicing together. Each brings their own Vovi voice, and the two Vovis work together to guide the conversation, fill gaps, and keep you both speaking in your target language.
In group sessions (3–10 people), a single universal Vovi facilitates the entire call, gauging everyone's level, guiding discussion, and splitting students into breakout rooms when needed.
After a good call, add them. Schedule a follow-up. Build a circle of friends learning the same thing you are. The people you stumble with become the people you're fluent with.
The friend who knows which call you should join, who you should talk to, and what you should focus on today. Heading to Mexico? Vovi finds you survival Spanish calls and native speakers who’ve been there.
Long enough to actually learn something, short enough to fit after dinner. Not speed-dating.
Your friend who listens quietly and helps when you're stuck. Never interrupts. Always there.
Press a button. Get paired with someone at your level who speaks the language you're learning.
Add people after good calls. Schedule follow-ups. Build a network of friends learning alongside you.
Up to 10 people, with Vovi dynamically splitting the room into pairs and groups based on conversation.
Vovi logs what you said, what stuck, and what to review. Your conversations become study material.
English, Spanish (Castilian + Latin American), Portuguese (European + Brazilian), Italian, French. Each variant gets its own Vovi tone.
Translation appears as you speak. Miss a word, glance down, keep the conversation alive instead of freezing.
Rio, Flo, Ash, Sage, Kai, Ren. Each one has its own tone. Pick the partner you actually want in the room.
Same group, same time, every week. Build momentum with people who remember where you left off.
Cooking, travel, music, work. Walk into a room with a topic already in motion — no awkward opening.
Tap a line from your transcript to hear it back. The exact second, the exact word — already saved.
Vovi flags the things textbooks skip — when not to use ‘tú’, when to bow, what ‘lekker’ really means.
Read a short story out loud together. Clickable grammar, side-by-side translation, real voices reading along.
Chat with Vovi, use the translator, read stories with clickable grammar. Start without a credit card.
Come back when you want. Progress isn't punished for being human.
Long enough to actually learn something, short enough to fit after dinner. Not speed-dating.
Your friend who listens quietly and helps when you're stuck. Never interrupts. Always there.
Press a button. Get paired with someone at your level who speaks the language you're learning.
Add people after good calls. Schedule follow-ups. Build a network of friends learning alongside you.
Up to 10 people, with Vovi dynamically splitting the room into pairs and groups based on conversation.
Vovi logs what you said, what stuck, and what to review. Your conversations become study material.
English, Spanish (Castilian + Latin American), Portuguese (European + Brazilian), Italian, French. Each variant gets its own Vovi tone.
Translation appears as you speak. Miss a word, glance down, keep the conversation alive instead of freezing.
Rio, Flo, Ash, Sage, Kai, Ren. Each one has its own tone. Pick the partner you actually want in the room.
Same group, same time, every week. Build momentum with people who remember where you left off.
Cooking, travel, music, work. Walk into a room with a topic already in motion — no awkward opening.
Tap a line from your transcript to hear it back. The exact second, the exact word — already saved.
Vovi flags the things textbooks skip — when not to use ‘tú’, when to bow, what ‘lekker’ really means.
Read a short story out loud together. Clickable grammar, side-by-side translation, real voices reading along.
Chat with Vovi, use the translator, read stories with clickable grammar. Start without a credit card.
Come back when you want. Progress isn't punished for being human.
Hit your cap during a heavy month? Buy extra call time without changing your plan.
Available on Starter and Pro. Up to two $5 or $12 packs per month; the $20 pack is limited to one per month. Using packs regularly? You’d save more by upgrading.
Language opens doors to people, places, and parts of yourself you didn’t know existed. Vovea exists because real conversation shouldn’t be hard to find. No textbooks. No isolation. Just people who stumble through sentences and laugh when it goes wrong, with Vovi keeping the room alive.
When it’s ready, not before. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you the moment it opens — no spam, just one email.
No. If no one matches, Vovi runs a solo session with you instead. You’re never stuck waiting.
Free forever for chat with Vovi. Live calls start at $20/mo. See pricing above for full details.
Five: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French. Spanish ships with both Castilian and Latin American variants. Portuguese ships with both European and Brazilian variants. You pick the variant you’re learning when you sign up.
Real conversation practice needs Vovi to be excellent in every language and variant it speaks — not just functional. We test our safety classifier, voice quality, and conversation depth per language and per regional variation before shipping that variant. Five well-tested languages serves learners better than twenty half-tested ones.
Yes. At launch, Vovi handles Castilian and Latin American Spanish as separate variants, and European and Brazilian Portuguese as separate variants. When you sign up you pick the variant you’re learning, and Vovi adapts its vocabulary, pronunciation, and cultural register accordingly.
We’re aiming at 20+ languages total. The next wave on our roadmap includes German, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and Russian. We add each language only when our quality bar is met, so we’re not committing release dates yet — but each one is in active development queue after launch.
italki is tutors-as-a-service. Tandem is a chat app. Vovea is a practice room you show up to — Vovi sits in and keeps it alive when conversation stalls.
Anyone 13 or older, anywhere in the world. Pick a language and a level. Show up.
Calls run up to 60 minutes. Most people do 30. You can stack two if you want a longer session.
One email when it’s ready. That’s it.