Listening Assignments: Authentic Audio, Real Comprehension
How many hours have you spent scrolling through YouTube looking for audio that's almost right for tomorrow's lesson? Slow enough for your beginners but not boring, on-topic but not stilted, the right length, the right voices? With v1.6.0, you stop hunting. You describe what you want, we build the audio, your students listen — and the comprehension questions get graded automatically. The hours you used to spend sourcing and assessing audio belong back to you.
Video Overview
Listening Is the Skill We All Underdo
In the real world, listening is the skill our students will use the most. Yet in our classes, it's usually the one that gets the least structured practice. Not because we don't care — but because actually pulling it off is a logistical headache. Finding the right clip, writing the comprehension questions, grading thirty open-ended responses... by the time you've done all that, you've burned a Saturday and the lesson is on Monday. So listening quietly drops to the bottom of the to-do list. Again.
Listening Assignments take the whole pipeline off your hands. You describe what you want students to hear; we generate it. You write the questions you want answered; we grade them. The hard parts are no longer the parts you do.
Audio Made to Your Spec
Tell us what you want and we build it. A short news report about Spanish elections. An interview with two friends planning a trip. A monologue about a chef's grandmother's kitchen. You set the topic, the style, the length, and the difficulty — we write the script and produce the audio, calibrated to your class's proficiency level. The vocabulary lands in the right zone. The cultural references make sense. The pace works for your students. No more compromises.
Spec, not search
Stop scrolling. Stop bookmarking five almost-right videos. Describe exactly what you wanted to find — that thing that didn't quite exist on the internet — and it just gets made for you.
One Voice or Two
You can choose between a single-voice clip — perfect for monologues, news reports, narrations, speeches — or a two-voice dialogue where your students hear an actual back-and-forth between two distinct speakers. Each character keeps their name, gender, and role consistent throughout the whole recording, so what comes out of the audio is the conversation you wrote, not a confusing mishmash.
Single Voice
Monologues, narrations, news reports, announcements. One speaker, one perspective, one voice.
Two Voices
Dialogues, interviews, debates, real conversations. Two distinct speakers, consistent from start to finish.
Build Bigger Listening Tasks
A single assignment can include multiple audio clips, each with its own topic, voices, and questions. So one assignment might open with a short news report, move on to a two-person interview on the same theme, and end with a personal reflection — students work through each clip in turn before moving to the next. That's the kind of structured, multi-stage listening task that takes hours to build by hand. Now it's the kind of thing you can put together between classes.
Nine Question Types
Every audio clip can have its own mix of comprehension questions, picked to match the listening skill you're actually trying to test. Pick what fits — they all get graded automatically:
Multiple Choice
Four options, one answer. Great for literal comprehension, vocab in context, and speaker intent.
Multi-Select
Pick all that apply — useful when you want them to identify every detail a speaker mentioned.
Short Answer
Open-ended responses graded against an expected answer. Main idea, detail recall, inference.
Free Response
Deeper analytical responses — synthesis, reflection, the kind of thinking multiple choice can't reach.
Fill in the Blank
Complete a sentence or transcript line from the audio. Tests precise listening.
True / False
Yes-or-no with an optional explanation. Quick comprehension check.
Matching
Connect terms, speakers, or ideas to their descriptions. Great for dialogue and vocab work.
Ordering
Drag items into the order they happened in the audio. Tests narrative or procedural recall.
Sorting
Drop items into categories. Useful for who-said-what, topic grouping, and classification tasks.
A Little Background Music, If They Want
While students work through the comprehension questions, they can choose a background music track — ambient, calm, designed to help with focus instead of fighting for their attention. You decide which categories are available; they pick what works for them (or silence). The choice sticks if they have to come back to finish later. It's a small touch, but the kind of thing that can make a thirty-minute listening task feel a lot less grueling.
Tweak Without Rebuilding
After we generate a clip, you can edit the script directly — fix a phrasing, simplify a sentence, change how a character speaks — and regenerate just the audio. No starting over, no waveform editing, no wrestling with audio software. You make the change in plain text and get back a clean, natural recording. Want a totally different take? Regenerate that clip from scratch without disturbing the rest of the assignment.
Edit text, not audio
Audio editing software is notoriously fiddly and the results are usually worse than the original. Here you just edit words on a page. The recording stays clean and consistent every time.
Grading That Happens Automatically
The objective questions — multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, matching, ordering, sorting — grade themselves the moment a student hits submit. The open-ended ones get evaluated immediately too, with the AI comparing each response against the expected answer and the audio it's about. Every score comes with a short explanation, so students don't just get a number — they understand what they missed. You can adjust any score and add your own note, and your note shows up alongside the AI's.
A Class View That Tells You What to Reteach
The Insights tab pulls together every student's open-ended responses and tells you what patterns emerged — common misconceptions, places where understanding broke down, the parts your students nailed. It runs per audio clip, so if one clip was clearly too dense or too fast for the class, that jumps out. The takeaway you used to develop after re-reading thirty responses is now waiting for you the morning after the assignment closes.
What the class actually heard
Individual scores tell you who got it. The class analysis tells you what they got — and what they kept missing. That second piece is what changes how you plan tomorrow's lesson.