Spanish LSA, done right. Code-switching included.
ConductSpeech is the first AI language sample analysis tool built with Spanish in mind from day one. Spanish-aware morpheme counting, code-switching detection per utterance, and normative comparison to the Romero CHILDES Spanish corpus — all in the same workflow you already use for English.
Why bilingual SLPs are switching
The competition treats Spanish as an afterthought. We treat it as a first-class language.
Spanish morphology, not English rules in Spanish clothes
Conjugation-rich Spanish (cantamos, perrito, dámelo) is counted with Spanish-aware rules — pronominal clitics, diminutives, verbal endings — not by stripping English suffixes off Spanish words.
Code-switching at the utterance level
Every utterance is tagged es / en / mixed. You can see exactly when a child code-switches across a session — and report it cleanly back to a bilingual evaluation team.
Normative bands from Romero CHILDES Spanish
Compare your sample to the Romero CHILDES Spanish corpus — open-access, peer-reviewed, and built specifically for Spanish-speaking children. Citable, replicable, and not paywalled.
Built in, not a separate product
Spanish analysis is part of every ConductSpeech tier. No add-on, no separate login, no second subscription — toggle the language and the same pipeline runs against the same metrics dashboard.
Code-switching, captured per utterance
Real bilingual children switch languages mid-sample. ConductSpeech records that accurately instead of forcing the whole sample into one language.
| # | Utterance | Tag | Morphemes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mira el perrito chiquito | es | 6 |
| 2 | He's running really fast | en | 5 |
| 3 | El dog está corriendo | mixed | 5 |
| 4 | Dámelo por favor | es | 5 |
| 5 | I want the pelota | mixed | 4 |
Sample for illustration. Real session output includes the morpheme breakdown, grammaticality flag, and any error annotations per utterance.
Spanish morphology, by the rules
What the Spanish analyzer actually does. No magic, no hidden translations.
- Verbal morphology: present, preterite, imperfect, future, conditional, subjunctive endings counted as separate morphemes.
- Diminutives (perrito, casita) handled per Spanish convention — not collapsed to a single word the way English -ie is.
- Pronominal clitics (dámelo, díselo) split into the verb stem and attached object pronouns.
- Plural and gender markers counted as separate morphemes.
- Function words (articles, prepositions) handled as in standard Spanish LSA practice.
- Code-switch detection runs per utterance and is reported alongside the morpheme breakdown.
Bilingual SLP questions, answered
How is this different from running Spanish through SALT?
SALT does not have first-class Spanish support — bilingual SLPs work around it. ConductSpeech ships a Spanish analyzer in the same product as the English one, so a bilingual clinician runs the same workflow regardless of the child's home language.
Which Spanish dialects do you cover?
The morpheme rules are written against general Spanish and the normative bands come from the Romero CHILDES Spanish corpus. We do not currently make dialect-specific claims (Mexican, Caribbean, Iberian, etc.) — the analyzer works across dialects, but the normative comparison is to the general corpus, not to a dialect subgroup. If your work depends on dialect-specific norms, contact us so we can scope it.
What does code-switching detection actually return?
Each utterance gets a language tag: es, en, or mixed (when both languages appear in the same utterance). You see a per-utterance table and an overall percentage breakdown across the sample.
Can I score a Spanish sample with the narrative rubrics (NSS / ESS / PSS)?
Yes. The narrative scoring runs on the Spanish text directly. Story-grammar element detection works for Spanish-language stories, and the rubric scores come back the same way they do for English samples.
Is this useful for English Learners specifically?
Yes — that's the primary use case. The US has roughly 13% English Learner students, the majority of them Spanish L1, and bilingual SLPs need a tool that doesn't pretend Spanish is just English with different vocabulary. ConductSpeech treats it as its own language.
Run your first Spanish sample today
Free tier includes Spanish analysis. Bring a sample, get morpheme counts, code-switch tagging, and a normative comparison in under five minutes.
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