Listening Exercises

Creating listening exercises using “text-to-speech” artificial intelligence apps

It’s now getting really easy to create your own customized listening exercises. “Amazon Polly”, Amazon’s text-to-speech app, is an easy-to-use, cheap service at 4$ per million characters. Ok, you might not always get quite the intonation you want, but it’s surprisingly good and certainly good enough for most listening/speaking classes. There are a range…