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Chris Fry, Barcelona
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Ex Teacher of English as a foreign language (EFL ESL) on and off the internet. Still interested in Extensive Reading and experimenting with how GenAI can help students get feedback on their speaking.
I'm a lapsed bird-watcher!
https://onewaytotefl.blogspot
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This was the third in the sequence, after original, corrected and before One level up and 2 levels up
February 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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I aimed for quick feedback on handwritten compositions. Uploading photos to ChatGPT it made 17 errors in 156 words. Recording and using Turboscribe.ai had only one error. Final step: paste Google Drive prompt into ChatGPT via Turboscribe for feedback.
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February 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Turboscribe versus Rev - the two best and most generous transcription tools
Which is best? Well, it depends...
Read my post here onewaytotefl.blogspot.com/2025/02/turb...
For example, the TurboScribe transcript includes the parts in bold that are missing from the Rev transcripts: · "[M] Right. It's like we're on the edge of this revolution, *you know*, and how we learn and practise speaking. *Like* it's a total paradigm shift" · "[M] Exactly. And they went step by step, *you know*, first analyse the speech, then identify errors" · "[M] Exactly. So you got to clean up the transcript a bit. And then that's when the fun starts. Use ChatGPT to actually *like* analyse your speech and give you feedback" · "[M] They encourage teachers to, *like*, play with it, change it, adapt it, *you know*, and even share their own versions with other teachers"
February 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Transcribe is added to the options when you receive a voice message. Sadly, the small range of languages doesn't include #català #Catalan
February 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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This is a preview of the talk I'll be giving at #APACELT25 on Saturday.
I suggest anyone thinking of coming should make sure they already have accounts with Turboscribe.ai and ChatGPT.
Useful to also have the ChatGPT app, a QR-code reader and earphones, too.
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The podcast about a 5-step prompt for students to use to get feedback on their speaking I chose 10 short recordings made by my pre-intermediate and intermediate students when I was a teacher and got verbatim transcripts using Rev.com . I then made screen recordings on my Android phone of me commenting on the recordings and playing them as I outlined the ideas behind the technique that I'll be talking about at various conferences this year. Almost inevitably nowadays, I thought it might work well to upload all 10 videos to NotebookLM and I was pleasantly surprised that mp4 files were as acceptable as mp3s. I used this customisation: This is a series of short videos based on recordings by Pre-intermediate and Intermediate students made in class or at home. Each video elaborates on Chris Fry's ideas about how students can record themselves, get transcripts and then seek help from ChatGPT using the long 5-step prompt he is developing. Please concentrate on the overall concept rather than the contents of the students' recordings although you can mention extracts that illustrate the main points of the process. The resulting podcast was very flattering and I was amazed with how well NotebookLM collected the different comments I made about each of the videos and made a coherent account out of it.
January 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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You can read a bit more about my findings here and about what ChatGPT had to say about the relative merits of ChatGPT itself, Pearson's GSE Text Analyzer, TextInspector and Write&Improve:
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I'll try to add the long 5-step prompt in the comments
The Chart shows the levels assigned by ChatGPT, GSE Text Analyzer, Text Inspector and Write&Improve to a sequence of five texts produced by ChatGPT at incresing levels of sophistication. My ideas about how students can use transcripts produced by tools like Turboscribe.ai and Rev.com combined with ChatGPT to get suggestions for ways to upgrade their language depend on ChatGPT grading their original transcript correctly and then producing progressively more complex versions of it for them to listen to, study and take notes on. They would then repeat the speaking task with a different listener, hopefully benefitting from the exposure to the emergent language. So, I have tried examining how ChatGPT's grading compares with other tools that claim to do the same. The chart above is based on only one B1 student's original transcript. There are vast differences between the four different tools.
January 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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“#Zuckerberg advocated for #Facebook not to restrict fake news, arguing such a crackdown would unfairly penalize conservatives.” This says it all!
Unless of course THIS is fake news, but it’s probably not as I read it in The #Guardian, which isn’t conservative
4 me the correct response is “Not Now”
January 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I did. The left shows the original transcript edited by me to put back in the fillers and interjections omitted. The right shows the verbatim version using this option that I only discovered recently
This is the transcript I edited to put back in all the constant interjections that it had omitted. At this point I hadn't discovered Verbatim mode in Rev.com This is a verbatim transcription of the same extract from the NotebookLM podcast, showing that it made a pretty good job of including fillers and interjections that it had missed in original transcription
December 31, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Claude helped me code a web app (Artifact). Anyone using the artifact can remix it. So, you can do it, too, if you have any account with Claude!
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#AItools, #Català, #Claude, #EFL, #Flashcards, #MFL, #mfltwitterati, #mlearning, #SpacedRepetition, #Vocabulary,
Vocabulary Trainer created by Claude to revise Animals, Journeys and Verbs at B1 level to go with Burlington's Advanced Aptions B1, Module1 Warning – very long post! (Remixing) Artifacts with Claude “Artifacts are content made with Claude like code snippets, text documents, graphics, diagrams, or website designs, that appear in a dedicated window alongside a chat with Claude. This Artifact was made and published using Claude.ai, a next generation AI assistant made by Anthropic that’s built for work and trained to be safe, accurate, & secure. You can also remix this Artifact with Claude using your own Claude.ai account to evolve and build on the ideas of the publisher.” Apart from the fact that Claude can help you code a web app (Artifact) from scratch, anyone using the artifact can also remix it - not only the creator. So you can do it, too, if you have a free account with Claude!
December 12, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Elevenlabs now allows students who are 18 and over to make podcasts based on their spoken or written work

Only possible using the apps for Android or iOS on a phone or tablet. Read more onewaytotefl.blogspot.com/2024/12/elev...
See the three examples for yourself:
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December 2, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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LIsten to parts of the five podcasts and decide which one(s) you like best onewaytotefl.blogspot.com/2024/11/five...
November 29, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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youtu.be/aOAzD91Mzks

#AItools, #EFL, #ESL, #ESOL, #mlearning, #NotebookLM, #retelling_the_story, #speaking, #speechtotext, #TEFL, #Transcription, #Turboscribe, #voice_recording, #VoiceToText
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.
November 17, 2024 at 10:47 PM