Every chapter now reads itself to you

Our learners are teachers, pharmacists, retailers, software engineers, tennis instructors and students. Most of them take the course around a university, a job and/or a family. And many read the chapters in their second or third language. For a lot of them, the hard part is finding 90 quiet minutes in front of a screen.

So we added a player to every chapter. Press the play button and the chapter reads to you. You can pause, move along the bar, and change the speed. It also stops automatically when you need to be hands-on.

Listening works

In a 2016 study, adults who listened to a book chapter, read it, or did both at once understood it equally well. Two weeks later, they remembered it equally well too. For most people, listening to a text teaches as much as reading it.

It opens the course to more people

Having text read aloud improves comprehension for people with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. A review of 22 studies found a small to moderate gain in comprehension when people with reading difficulties had the text read to them.

It fits into real life

The commute, walking the dog, cooking dinner, the gym. Your hands and eyes are busy, but your ears are free, so that time can go into the course too.

The voice

The voice is an AI voice, made from Julien's. We listen to all the chapters before we publish them, but like every AI, it can get things wrong and we could miss the error: a name mispronounced, a number read oddly. When in doubt, trust the text on the page (and tell us if you find an error). That's also the first thing we teach: check what the machine tells you.

And yes, it somehow came out with a British accent. Seems like the AI wasn't able to replicate Julien's French-American accent :)