Built by people who watchedOET Speaking gate a career.
Migrating to the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Singapore, Malta, or Namibia as a healthcare professional means passing OET. The Speaking sub-test is where most candidates lose the most marks — and the place practice is hardest to access.
Why we built it.
We started OET Live after watching close friends — nurses from the Philippines, doctors from India, a physiotherapist from Brazil — get held back at the OET Speaking gate. They could write fluent referral letters, read complex case notes, and chart vitals in a second language without flinching. But the Speaking sub-test asked for something different: a live, time-pressured, patient-facing five-minute consultation, scored against a rubric most of them had never seen rendered in plain English.
The fix on the market was either expensive 1:1 tutoring (great, but bandwidth-limited and unaffordable before a salary kicks in) or generic IELTS apps repackaged with a clinical wrapper (no patient context, no real rubric, no useful feedback). What was missing was the interactive part — actually being on the other end of a five-minute role-play with a patient who responds to what you say, then getting graded the way an OET examiner would grade.
That's what we built. A real-time AI patient on live audio. Per-syllable pronunciation analysis. Cue verification on every task. The full 9-criteria OET rubric, evaluated automatically. Eleven thousand verified cases across all twelve professions. The whole thing on your iPhone.
Three things we keep doing.
Calibrate against the real rubric
Our scoring prompts mirror the public OET rubric and are validated against examiner-style calibration sets. Where the model and an examiner disagree, the examiner wins and the prompt gets updated.
Own the infrastructure
EU-hosted on infrastructure we control, no third-party trackers, no data brokered to other apps. Your recordings, transcripts, and scores stay on machines we own. Account deletion is final.
Build in the open
We publish methodology — how the case bank is generated, how scoring is calibrated, where pronunciation engines disagree. The blog is the operating record.
Migrating healthcare professionals from any of the 12 OET professions.
Nurses heading to the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Singapore. Doctors moving toward AHPRA or the UKMC. Dentists, dietitians, occupational therapists, optometrists, pharmacists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, radiographers, speech pathologists, and veterinary scientists who need to clear OET to register.
If that's you — or you're supporting someone going through it — OET Live is for you.
Build with us. Join the waitlist.
Drop your email. When TestFlight opens, you'll be among the first to try it. We'll also email you when we ship something worth showing — and not when we don't.