In this presentation, the speakers identify some advantages to using the Reading Progress feature in Microsoft Teams to improve Japanese university students’ overall reading aloud and speaking fluency in English. In addition, some of the challenges encountered in the first year of using the application are identified. The goal in this first year was to ensure that students read assigned English texts aloud using the Reading Progress feature of Microsoft Teams. Another objective was to encourage more engagement with their foreign language rather than automatically relying on translation applications to understand texts. In addition, learners were expected to improve their fluency and confidence reading aloud and speaking by regularly engaging with English texts. By using Reading Progress, teachers can provide semi- or fully-automated reports, providing students with feedback on their individual struggles to verbalize the text clearly. These could include self-corrections occurring in production, but also pronunciation errors, insertions, omissions, and repetitions. A survey of the learners and teachers was undertaken to verify just how much students engaged with their feedback and how much students and teachers feel this tool has helped towards the goal of improving both their confidence and fluency in reading aloud and speaking.