From ‘Listen and Repeat’ to Artificial Intelligence: Evolution in Pronunciation Teaching

Early pronunciation teaching was heavily based on imitating the teacher in a ‘repeat-after-me’ manner, with a standard native-speaker accent as the ultimate goal.
Things have moved on since then, however, with international intelligibility now the goal, and web and mobile AI–powered apps making learning easier than ever.
But, is AI threatening to make teachers redundant, or do AI pronunciation apps glitter without being gold? Put more directly, is there still a meaningful role for teachers to play when it comes to teaching pronunciation?