Less tapping.
More talking.
The practice room for people learning a language. Show up, start talking, and Vovi keeps the conversation going when you get stuck.
A practice room never closes.
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 a time. Show up.
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.
Quick Match in seconds.
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.
Vovi keeps the room alive.
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.
Vovi sits in on every call.
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.
What you get.
See every feature →30–60 min live calls
Long enough to actually learn something, short enough to fit after dinner. Not speed-dating.
Vovi in every room
Your friend who listens quietly and helps when you're stuck. Never interrupts. Always there.
Quick Match
Press a button. Get paired with someone at your level who speaks the language you're learning.
Practice partners
Add people after good calls. Schedule follow-ups. Build a network of friends learning alongside you.
Group sessions
Up to 10 people, with Vovi dynamically splitting the room into pairs and groups based on conversation.
Automatic progress
Vovi logs what you said, what stuck, and what to review. Your conversations become study material.
5 languages at launch
English, Spanish (Castilian + Latin American), Portuguese (European + Brazilian), Italian, French. Each variant gets its own Vovi tone.
Live subtitles
Translation appears as you speak. Miss a word, glance down, keep the conversation alive instead of freezing.
Six Vovi voices
Rio, Flo, Ash, Sage, Kai, Ren. Each one has its own tone. Pick the partner you actually want in the room.
Scheduled cohorts
Same group, same time, every week. Build momentum with people who remember where you left off.
Themed rooms
Cooking, travel, music, work. Walk into a room with a topic already in motion — no awkward opening.
Replay any moment
Tap a line from your transcript to hear it back. The exact second, the exact word — already saved.
Cultural notes
Vovi flags the things textbooks skip — when not to use 'tú', when to bow, what 'lekker' really means.
Story circles
Read a short story out loud together. Clickable grammar, side-by-side translation, real voices reading along.
Free forever tier
Chat with Vovi, use the translator, read stories with clickable grammar. Start without a credit card.
Miss a week, nothing breaks
Come back when you want. Progress isn't punished for being human.
30–60 min live calls
Long enough to actually learn something, short enough to fit after dinner. Not speed-dating.
Vovi in every room
Your friend who listens quietly and helps when you're stuck. Never interrupts. Always there.
Quick Match
Press a button. Get paired with someone at your level who speaks the language you're learning.
Practice partners
Add people after good calls. Schedule follow-ups. Build a network of friends learning alongside you.
Group sessions
Up to 10 people, with Vovi dynamically splitting the room into pairs and groups based on conversation.
Automatic progress
Vovi logs what you said, what stuck, and what to review. Your conversations become study material.
5 languages at launch
English, Spanish (Castilian + Latin American), Portuguese (European + Brazilian), Italian, French. Each variant gets its own Vovi tone.
Live subtitles
Translation appears as you speak. Miss a word, glance down, keep the conversation alive instead of freezing.
Six Vovi voices
Rio, Flo, Ash, Sage, Kai, Ren. Each one has its own tone. Pick the partner you actually want in the room.
Scheduled cohorts
Same group, same time, every week. Build momentum with people who remember where you left off.
Themed rooms
Cooking, travel, music, work. Walk into a room with a topic already in motion — no awkward opening.
Replay any moment
Tap a line from your transcript to hear it back. The exact second, the exact word — already saved.
Cultural notes
Vovi flags the things textbooks skip — when not to use 'tú', when to bow, what 'lekker' really means.
Story circles
Read a short story out loud together. Clickable grammar, side-by-side translation, real voices reading along.
Free forever tier
Chat with Vovi, use the translator, read stories with clickable grammar. Start without a credit card.
Miss a week, nothing breaks
Come back when you want. Progress isn't punished for being human.
Available at launch. Start free, upgrade when you're ready.
- Chat with Vovi (text)
- Translator & Stories
- Message up to 5 friends
- No ads — ever
- No live calls. Watch demo videos to see what calls look like
- Vovi text chat: limited messages/day, no memory between sessions
- Translator (Vovi-teaching mode)
- Stories with clickable word grammar breakdowns
- Add up to 5 friends (text chat)
- Basic progress tracking
- Community boards
- No credit card required to start
- Everything in Free
- 1-on-1 live calls (90 min/mo)
- Vovi remembers what you forgot last week
- Summary + new words after every call
- 1-on-1 peer calls: 90 minutes/month cap
- Vovi smart activation: speaks when asked or when you're stuck
- Post-call Vovi summary + vocabulary extraction
- Vovi text chat with memory (remembers your level and past conversations)
- Personalized lesson suggestions
- Quick Match + schedule with friends
- Add up to 15 friends
- No group calls at this tier
- Everything in Starter
- All 7 Vovi voices
- Group calls + breakout rooms
- Subtitles as you talk
- 1-on-1 peer calls: 150 minutes/month cap
- Group calls with dynamic breakouts (up to 10 people): 180 minutes/month cap
- All 6 Vovi voice personalities + default voice (7 total)
- Live subtitles during calls (translation appears as you speak)
- Grammar correction during calls (optional toggle)
- Vovi-solo fallback if no match found
- Matched faster than free users
- Unlimited friends
- Everything in Pro
- Always-on Vovi in 1-on-1
- Host group sessions
- Deep Memory coaching
- Always-on Vovi in 1-on-1 calls. Not just smart activation; Vovi actively participates throughout
- 1-on-1 calls: 300 minutes/month with always-on Vovi
- Group calls: 240 minutes/month
- Host your own group sessions (create, invite, RSVP, public or private)
- Vovi Deep Memory coaching. Tracks long-term patterns across all your sessions
- Daily Vovi coaching check-ins
- Weekly Vovi progress reports
- Re-listen to your call audio (7-day retention)
Minute Packs
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.
Conversation,
not curriculum.
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.
Questions.
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.
The room opens
in 2026.
One email when it's ready. That's it.