Like me, Luke, quickly latched on to the idea of students using AudioPen to get feedback on their speaking. I've been experimenting with 15 systems that offer to do the same thing, using the same recording made by one of my students with all of them, with a view to writing up a comparison. Meanwhile, here is the data for AudioPen, which is one of the better ones. Here is what it did:
Original Transcript AudioPen AudioPen polished version Dolphins save swimmers
from a shark attack. Dolphins Shield
Swimmers from Shark Dolphins save swimmers from a shark attack. A
man named Bob was swimming with his daughter, her friend suggested
improvements An
interested student might learn quite a lot from the corrections
and the suggested improvements. For example, in this
corrected and improved sentence, "Two of the dolphins pushed Bob away
while two girls continued to swim with the remaining dolphins.” a student
could learn the items listed below. All of these would be useful for the B1
student who made the original recording and if they use the Edge browser they
can use Read Aloud to listen to the improved version, as can you. ·
Two of the dolphins ·
pushed ·
pushed Bob away ·
while ·
continued to swim ·
the remaining dolphins
A lakeward rope lives when he
is with his daughter and with daughter's friends and they were swimming in
front of the beach and seven dolphins appear and start to swim with us
around them but there are two dolphins that push Bob
and far away there are two girls swimming with the rest of dolphins suddenly
he could see another huge fish 3 meters long it was a shark
and it feels nervous but he
decided don't tell anything to two girls but he realized that
the dolphins push the two girls together and
start to swim around them 40 minutes at the
end the shark swam away and all the people were safe Bob
said that he swam with dolphins 3 or 4 times but he
couldn't see this behaviour in dolphins and an expert
told him that there are other things that in other seas happen this
expert explained that when the dolphins feel that the
humans are in danger have the sense of protecting
them (176 words.
errorsnot included in the polished version
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and seven dolphins at the beach. Two of the dolphins pushed
Bob away while two girls continued
to swim with the remaining dolphins. Suddenly, Bob saw a
big 3-meter-long shark nearby. He felt
scared but did not tell the
girls about it. The dolphins brought the two girls closer
together and swam around them for 40
minutes until the shark left. Bob had
swum with dolphins before but never
saw this kind of behaviour from them. An expert
told him that when humans are in danger, some
friendly sea creatures like these intelligent animals will
try to protect people by keeping any threats away. (127 words B2+ 54%)
corrections
Some of the other 14 systems offer improved versions of this student's transcript that are too sophisticated for this student, who was at level B1 on the CEFR scale. AudioPen produced a version that Text Inspector rated at B2+ 54%. This is more likely to be of use to this student than all the ones producing versions at C1 or C1+.
