In this candid episode of Intrigued to Innovate, host Dr Jovan Tan sits down with Guhan Ashok Kumar, a recent graduate of the NUS Innovation and Design Program (iDP). Guhan recounts how he turned his childhood challenge with a speech impairment and the mockery he endured into EasyConvo, a startup that offers a space for students to practice speaking daily—an essential step toward achieving fluency.

Daily speaking practice is the most effective way to learn a language. However, traditional classrooms and popular apps often keep learners stuck in vocabulary drills, preventing them from truly finding their voice.

Guhan notes that while research shows learners need 20 minutes of daily speaking to improve, traditional methods can't meet this demand at scale. What started as a Korean-language chatbot called Chingu went through relentless it ...