IB Assessment practice tool
I had a question from a teacher today - they were exploring SchoolAI for Languages students. They were investigating how they could use a space to practice their language and receive feedback on their vocabulary & the construction of their spoken sentence.One teacher wondered if there was a way to do it so the students could only hear the instruction or conversation - there would be no text. (Think prepping for an IB assessment.)Does anyone know of a tool that could do this, without having to build one themselves?
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Hi Michael, great question. This is close to something we’ve been working on with Vocina.At the moment, Vocina runs as a voice-first conversational agent (learners hear prompts and respond verbally), but it does display a live transcription of both the agent and the learner on screen. That’s been useful for transparency, review, and feedback but I can see why a purely audio experience would be...
That’s an interesting idea, Michael. Eleven Labs could be a good way to get closer to that audio-only experience. From what I understand, they’ve moved beyond just voice generation and into conversational agents, so you could potentially build something interactive there. I’d be curious about how it goes with the learning/interaction aspect; things like follow-up questions, adapting to...
Thanks for the information, Zoe. Yeah, it is a hard one to crack. I was thinking of using 11 labs to create something without the live transcription.
We have the same issue with indigenous accents, too.
Nice question, and I’d actually be interested in this too.I don’t know of a tool that does this well yet, especially with the audio-only element, but it makes a lot of sense for language learning and IB prep.Curious to see what others suggest.