Seven podcasts based on a B1 student’s recording about a Spanish Couple on the Titanic

 

Podcast Click name to listen	Level GSE	Level CEFR	Words	Length	Words per minute
NotebookLM	57-61	B2	823	4:27	185
Lettercast	62-66	B2	309	2:06	147
Upod.ai	60-64	B2	333	1:56	172
Wondercraft	59-63	B2	246	1:26	172
Elevenlabs	65-69	B2+	964	6:06	158
Monica.im	62-66	B2	575	3:52	149
Inpodcast.ai	64-68	B2	1489	9:22	159

Remember that students can slow down the podcast to 75%

Which do you like best?

Which do you think would be the best one to listen to and read for the B1 student who told the story?

The links to the podcasts will take you to the transcripts with the recordings on Turboscribe.ai 
You won't need to log in to listen to them, but you will need to move the page down to get the transcript and the recording synchronised.

Transcript of spoken conversation with Copilot fed into Claude to get a podcast script to use in Wondercraft to produce a podcast

This is really part 2 of a post about a wonderful conversation I had with Copilot using voice. You can read part 1, which ended with me getting a podcast produced by Google's NotebookLM, here.

I wanted to experiment as well with Wondercraft, which offers various ways to create a podcast. One way is to provide it with a script and you can then choose from different voices and add music.

I thought Claude would be a good way to get a script for a podcast based on my conversation with Copilot and that proved to be true.  I uploaded a Word doc of my conversation and said, "Can you make this into a podcast?"The script it produced was for one speaker and it suggested when to have pauses and when to insert music at the beginning and end.

I gave the script to Wondercraft and chose a woman's voice, Abby's, for the podcast and some music for the intro and outro.  I exported the .wav file and uploaded it to Rev.com to get a transcript that would be synchronised with the recording. You can see the results here as I made a screen recording of it playing on my iPad (4 minutes):

Here is the screen recording of the podcast produced by NotebookLM (9 minutes):

While both podcasts give a good account of my conversation with Copilot about a presentation I'm planning to give, my real interest is in how students might benefit from creating such podcasts based on their recorded speaking or their writing.

Transcript of spoken conversation with Copilot fed into NotebookLM

It all started off with a wonderful conversation with Copilot using voice. I wanted to try out an idea I had heard about in a webinar (GenAI tools for independent learning) yesterday of using GenAI to help you polish your presentation.

It didn’t quite work out as I had imagined, and I only wish I had recorded the conversation on Rev.com on my phone, which I had beside me. It turned into a to and fro conversation about what I planned to talk about in the presentation. It was actually constructive and I clarified some doubts I had about what to include and how to handle the fast pace of development in speech to text and GenAI in general.

You can’t share conversations on Copilot, believe it or not, so I copied and pasted the transcript of the conversation into Google’s NotebookLM to generate an 8-minute podcast.

Of course I downloaded podcast from NotebookLM and uploaded it into Rev.com to get synchronised transcripts.

I then used screen recorder on my Android phone to record how that looks.

You may not be that interested in the content, but I hope you can see how the same ideas can be used to help learners of English who are 18 and over can get content to enhance their language development.

1. They can have a voice conversation with Copilot and record it with either a screen recorder or another device. 
2. They can upload the recording or the transcript of the conversation to NotebookLM.
3. They can generate a podcast based on the conversation
4. They can download the audio file of the podcast and upload it to Rev.com
5. They can listen to the podcast at a slightly slower speed while following the synchronised transcript on Rev.com

How to use Rev, ChatGPT, NotebookLM to help students improve their English

I've made a 30-minute video showing how students can record themselves using Rev.com, study a transcript of their recording and ask ChatGPT to help then identify errors, see what they could have said and how they should be able to express the same thing at the end of the course or next year.

A new idea I played with is to upload a series of separate prompts for ChatGPT to a class WhatsApp group so students can simply copy each of them in turn and paste them in instead of having to type them out.

The video was made using an iPad and has been heavily edited.

Rev.com is great as it gives everyone 300 minutes a month on a free account, but at present it only works for English and for people over 18. Turboscribe.ai, on the other hand, works in more than one hundred languages and can be used by people of 13-18 with parental permission as well as for over-18s.

This is the second thing I suggested to other teachers at the Language Show - Show and Tell

Using NotebookLM with "Dolphins save Swimmers" by Lidia G

This is one of the things I suggested to other teachers at the Language Show - Show and Tell

Bargain Sweater Turboscribe ai and ChatGPT