Give your online classes a voice!

Perfect for language learning, our web-based voice tools facilitate and promote vocal instruction, collaboration, coaching, and assessment. Increase the interaction and student engagement level of any online learning environment by allowing faculty to easily embed vocal interactions into their web sites.



Reaching beyond the traditional language laboratory environment, our voice tools support traditional communicative styles of language learning, giving students multiple methods of speaking, writing, and listening to foreign languages - all online. Humanize and personalize your online courses by using threaded voice boards, voice-enabled email, embedded voice within course pages, and live group discussions and debates.

Benefits

Offer live discussions between students and teachers, anytime, anywhere

Teach foreign languages by emphasizing speaking and listening

Encourage on-going discussions and debates about different subjects and ideas

Easily teach pronunciation, rhythm, stress, and emphasis

Students learn all aspects of a language through listening, speaking, and writing exercises

24/7 access

Instant anytime, anywhere access to language resources as students are no longer constrained by the availability of a physical language lab and/or instructors

Features

Live Conversation and/or Voice Coaching
Practice a language by actually speaking it with someone. This real-time voice conferencing feature allows for live oral language instruction, small group role-plays, and other live, conversation-based tasks. Additionally, instructors can conduct lectures, conferences, discussions and debates, keep virtual office hours for conversations with students, and even record discussions for future playback.

Threaded Voice Boards
Speak and read a language at the same time, or simply create threaded voice discussions about any subject. Great for brainstorming and collaborating on almost any topic in any language, instructors and students can post vocal messages with accompanying text into our voice-based message boards. Discuss multiple subjects at once by dividing new topics into their own threads. This is one of the best ways to practice all aspects of a new language.

Embedded Voice within Course Pages
Easily add listening exercises and voice messages into any CMS course page. Our Voice Tools incorporate a small recorder and playback feature that can be placed within any CMS page allowing instructors to verbally explain complex ideas, post assignments, or simply highlight important ideas that will be discussed in upcoming lessons.

Voice-Enabled E-Mail
Students and instructors can send vocal email messages to anyone, and recipients simply reply by sending their own voice email. Voice emails are particularly useful for role-playing activities and question and answer sessions. And to ensure security, instructors have full control of the distribution of every email.

Oral Assessments
Assess your students 24/7. Enable language instructors to build a wide range of test questions types, such as multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, pairing, voice dialogue, vocal multiple-choice, or vocal pairing multiple-choice. These questions can be associated with a variety of oral, visual, and text-based prompts, requiring oral and text-based responses. Learners simply log into the system and proceed through the test questions, recording their responses as they use Voice Tools.