Real-time AI patient
A 5-minute role-play with a live-audio AI patient. They listen for pauses, ask clarifying questions, and stay in character. No scripted branches, no canned replies — every conversation is shaped by what you say.
Features
Everything in one role-play —nothing wasted.
OET Live scores every OET Speaking criterion, surfaces the exact words you fluffed, and tells you which cues you missed — automatically, in about a minute. And it now marks your OET Writing letters on all six official criteria too.
Start free in your browser Web app · Windows, Mac, Android, Chromebook
One account on both: start on one, carry on with the other.
Want more? Try Essential monthly free for 3 days — up to 30 practice minutes (about 6 role-plays). A card is required; cancel before the trial ends and you are not charged, otherwise it renews at US$39.99/month.
Web app + iPhone app
Core capabilities
Six things that make OET Live different.
9-criteria OET scoring
Every role-play is scored on the four linguistic criteria (intelligibility, fluency, appropriateness, resources of grammar and expression) and the five clinical communication criteria (relationship building, understanding the patient perspective, providing structure, information gathering, information giving). Plus a 0–500 overall and an A–E grade.
Pronunciation diagnostics
Industry-grade pronunciation analysis scores every syllable for accuracy, completeness, and fluency. We surface the specific words you mispronounced, ranked by how much they would hurt an examiner — so you drill what matters.
Cue detection per task
Every OET role-card has 4–5 tasks. We verify each one against your transcript — hit, partial, miss — with the exact quote you used as evidence. No more guessing whether you covered all the cues.
Personalised recommender
A weighted recommender targets your two weakest criteria, suggests topics you haven't tried, and adjusts difficulty as your scores climb. Hit Recommended and you get a case engineered to move your weakest band.
OET Writing, marked
Write a referral letter against a profession-specific case — timed under exam conditions or untimed with hints and model answers — then get it scored on all six official OET Writing criteria, with inline annotations on the phrases that cost you marks and band-5 + band-7 sample answers to compare against.
The rubric, demystified
All 9 criteria scored on every role-play.
OET Speaking examiners grade against four linguistic criteria and five clinical-communication criteria. We mirror the public rubric and give you both the band and the why.
01 · Criterion
Intelligibility
How easy you are to understand at the sound and stress level.
02 · Criterion
Fluency
Speed, rhythm, hesitations, fillers.
03 · Criterion
Appropriateness of language
Vocabulary, register, hedging — does it fit a real consultation?
04 · Criterion
Resources of grammar and expression
Range and accuracy across complex structures.
05 · Criterion
Relationship building
Greeting, rapport, empathy, closing.
06 · Criterion
Understanding the patient perspective
Eliciting concerns, ideas, expectations.
07 · Criterion
Providing structure
Signposting, transitions, agenda-setting.
08 · Criterion
Information gathering
Open + closed questions, screening, summarising.
09 · Criterion
Information giving
Chunks, checks, jargon control.
Now scoring OET Writing
All 6 Writing criteria marked on every letter.
The OET Writing sub-test is graded on six official criteria — one scored 0–3, five scored 0–7. We mark each one against the public rubric, annotate the phrases that earned or cost marks, and give you band-5 and band-7 model answers for the same task. There is no word-count penalty: length is judged only through relevance and summarising.
Scored 0–3
Purpose
Is it clear in the first sentence why the letter was sent — and is the right reader addressed?
Scored 0–7
Content
The clinical facts the reader needs, accurate and relevant — no omissions, no errors.
Scored 0–7
Conciseness & Clarity
Relevance and summarising quality. Length is never penalised on its own.
Scored 0–7
Genre & Style
Reads like a clinical letter to this recipient — register, salutation, sign-off.
Scored 0–7
Organisation & Layout
Logical flow, sensible paragraphing, and a letter structure the reader can follow.
Scored 0–7
Language
Grammar, vocabulary, spelling, punctuation, and cohesion.
Ready to try it? On iPhone or in your browser.
Every new account gets 1 free exam session — a full role-play scored on all nine criteria — plus 10 minutes with the coach.
On Android, Windows or a Mac? OET Live now runs in your browser — the same role-plays and scoring as the iPhone app, nothing to install.
iPhone app: iOS 16 or later. On anything else, use it in your browser at oetlive.com/app.
Want more? Try Essential monthly free for 3 days — up to 30 practice minutes (about 6 role-plays). A card is required; cancel before the trial ends and you are not charged, otherwise it renews at US$39.99/month.