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Voice and Accent Assessment measures pronunciation and communication effectiveness, essential for roles requiring clear verbal interactions. Pre-hire, it ensures candidates meet communication standards; post-hire, it aids in personalized coaching to enhance customer interaction quality. It measures fluency, pronunciation, grammar, and accent neutrality—helping recruiters identify candidates who can represent the brand professionally across global interactions.
The Voice and Accent Test by PMaps is a pre-employment assessment designed to evaluate spoken English proficiency and accent clarity for candidates in customer support, telecommunication, and BPO roles. A speaking test helps you assess candidates on four key pillars: fluency, pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary, and spoken comprehension. It ensures that shortlisted candidates can communicate clearly with international clients and customers, without language barriers or miscommunication risks.
The test includes real-time voice simulations and context-driven responses, allowing recruiters to evaluate how candidates speak in professional scenarios. Whether it’s evaluating a neutral accent or detecting grammatical inconsistencies, the oral skill test provides measurable insights aligned with industry expectations.
Skills covered include:
Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
The ability to speak with a clear accent for effective and understandable communication.
Expressing speech with distinct pronunciation and clarity.
Ability to quickly find solutions to issues and communicate them effectively.
Capability to read and interpret passages accurately and fluently.
Conveying information freely and articulately in various speaking scenarios.
Enhanced Clarity:
Ensures clear and understandable speech for customer interactions.
Global Compatibility:
Aligns vocal communication with international or regional accents.
Customer Satisfaction:
Improves client relations with effective voice and accent matching.
Tailored Training:
Identifies specific areas for linguistic improvement and personalization.
Brand Representation:
Upholds company image with polished and professional verbal communication.
Globally Validated
Language Agnostic
Advanced Analytics
Reliable & Validated
Seamless Integration
Real-time Reporting
Proctoring
Choosing PMaps means opting for a comprehensive and transformative assessment solution designed to address your most critical talent management needs. Our platform sets itself apart by delivering precision in talent acquisition and development through a suite of robust psychometric assessments. By leveraging our advanced analytics and expertise, organizations can seamlessly navigate the complexities of hiring, succession planning, and employee development.
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Boost completion rates with a candidate experience that’s seamless across all devices.
Gain clear insights from detailed reports to make informed candidate evaluations
We use PMaps for two assessments, Sales Aptitude Assessment and Values Assessment for our salespersons. It helped us improve the quality of our hires. We have seen lower attrition.
PMaps enables us to screen and assess candidates before they join us, especially when hiring thousands of individuals. It helps us understand their aptitude, communication skills, and personality.
The PMaps team has been extremely forthcoming and receptive to the requirements we have shared. The solution that has been designed and customized to suit our requirements has been very well received.
Flexible customization options to suit your needs
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Choose from beginner, intermediate, or advanced questions within our extensive skill libraries to challenge candidates at appropriate levels.
Integrate multiple skill sets into one efficient test to evaluate candidates' competencies across the board comprehensively.
Easily insert your specialized questions, be they coding problems, multiple-choice questions, or case studies, to tailor the test to your company’s profile.
Collaborate with our experts to develop bespoke assessments that effectively pinpoint the best candidates for your team.
Select from established industry benchmarks or work with us to create customized criteria that meet your unique organizational needs.
Utilize our advanced proctoring feature to maintain test integrity, ensuring a fair and secure assessment environment.
When interacting with international clients, even minor mispronunciations or unclear articulation can cause confusion, frustration, or worse—loss of trust. Accent clarity, fluency, and pronunciation directly impact customer satisfaction (CSAT), resolution times, and call efficiency.
Here’s why this matters in real terms:
In global BPOs, IT support, healthcare helplines, and financial services, communication friction is a silent service killer. The Voice and Accent Online Test ensures that every voice representing your brand is globally understood, trusted, and aligned with your professional tone.
Hiring is only the first step. What sets high-performing HR teams apart is their ability to use post-assessment data to guide development. Once a candidate completes the voice and accent assessment, PMaps provides a detailed competency report that doesn’t just score fluency—it breaks down communication dimensions like:
This allows training managers and L&D teams to:
Instead of generic language training, your teams can deliver personalized coaching—reducing learning time and improving communication ROI across the board. This transforms the test from a hiring tool into a communication development platform that scales with your team.
One of the biggest limitations of traditional voice assessments is their lack of context. Reading a sentence aloud or repeating a phrase doesn’t indicate how well a candidate will perform during a real customer call. That’s why the Voice and Accent Online Test by PMaps integrates scenario-based evaluation—designed to mirror real-world customer interactions across industries.
Candidates respond to prompts such as:
“A customer is angry due to a billing error—how would you respond?”
“You’re explaining a complex plan upgrade to a non-native English speaker—how do you ensure clarity?”
These simulations test not just pronunciation and fluency—but also tone modulation, emotional intelligence, clarity under pressure, and linguistic adaptability. For recruiters and hiring managers, this adds another level of confidence:
You're not just evaluating language skills—you're assessing language performance under real-world stressors.
This helps HRs:
Choosing PMaps' solution means investing in a tool that is:
With PMaps' Voice and Accent Test, you gain more than just an evaluation tool; you embrace a strategic asset that can significantly uplift your organization's global communication capabilities.
Learn more about PMaps through commonly asked questions:
It evaluates pronunciation, intonation, and speech clarity to ensure effective verbal communication, particularly in roles requiring precise customer interactions.
It helps companies ensure their team can communicate with a clear, understandable accent, which is vital for customer satisfaction and global business operations.
By ensuring staff can speak clearly and be easily understood by customers, thereby improving service quality and reducing misunderstandings.
