Language Schools: Listening Dialogues and PDF Audio Courses

Every class has its own level, and coursebook recordings rarely cover what your students actually need: a first day at a new job, a visit to the doctor, a call with a client. Recording new ones takes voices, time and a studio. With Fynqcast a language school or training centre can produce listening dialogues by level, for example English listening practice at B1, and audio lessons from its own PDF materials.

What you can do with Fynqcast

• Dialogues by CEFR level. In the Translate & Speak category, Create with AI asks for a topic, a level from A1 to C2, a format (dialogue, debate or interview) and a situation. The text always has two voices, is written for that level, and has no narrator and no exercises inside the audio: you write the questions.
• Lessons from your materials. In the Learning category, upload a PDF, DOCX or TXT file, which is read exactly as written. Or paste an extract into Source material and Create with AI writes a lesson based on that material, without contradicting it.
• A teaching brief. Level of the audience (beginner, intermediate, advanced), learning objective and format: lesson, micro-lesson, review, questions and answers. At the Advanced level you add examples, a glossary and terminology, and verification questions at the end, with a thinking pause of up to 10 seconds.
• Eight audio languages: English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Arabic, so the same method works for every language you teach.
• Lengths that suit a class: dialogues run from 15 seconds to 60 minutes, lessons from 1 to 60 minutes.
• MP3 and SRT subtitles. The SRT file becomes the transcript you hand out after listening.

How it works

1. Open Studio in your dashboard and choose Translate & Speak for dialogues or Learning for lessons.
2. Choose how to start: Create with AI, Paste your text or PDF, DOCX or TXT. Pasted or uploaded text is read by one voice; two voices come with Create with AI.
3. Set the language, maximum duration and voices, and listen to a sample of each voice.
4. Review it as you would an exercise. You can rewrite a single line by saying how it should change, for example "simpler". Then approve the text: nothing is generated without approval.
5. Generate and download the MP3 and SRT, and add them to your school's platform or course materials.

An example: B1 English listening for an evening class

The school and characters are fictional. Harbourside Language School runs a B1 evening class working on a unit about work. In the brief, the teacher enters: topic "First day in a new office", level B1, format Dialogue, situation "a new colleague asks about working hours, meetings and lunch".

An excerpt of the kind of dialogue you get (this one was written by our editorial team):

Anna: Hi, I'm Anna. It's my first day here. What time do people usually start? Tom: Most of us arrive around half past eight, but it's quite flexible. Anna: Great. Is there a team meeting every week? Tom: Yes, on Monday mornings at ten. It used to be on Fridays, but people kept leaving early. Anna: That makes sense. Where do you usually have lunch? Tom: There's a small café downstairs. I can show you later, if you like.

The teacher's questions, on paper: When is the team meeting? Why did it move from Friday? What does Tom offer to do?

For an A2 class, create a new production with the same topic at level A2: shorter sentences, mostly present tense. For the related grammar point, the school uses the Learning category: it pastes the teacher's PDF worksheet on "used to" into Source material, chooses the micro-lesson format and turns on verification questions with a five-second pause.

Who it's for

• Language schools and centres with classes grouped by level.
• Training providers and corporate trainers who want to turn handouts and manuals into lessons to listen to.
• Teachers of English and other languages looking for dialogues set in real situations.

What changes: listening tracks made for the unit you are teaching, the same topic at different levels for mixed classes, and every text checked by the teacher before it becomes audio.

Frequently asked questions

Do the dialogues really match the CEFR levels? Studio writes each dialogue following specific guidance for every level from A1 to C2: at A2, for instance, simple everyday language and short sentences; at C1, precise vocabulary and idiomatic expressions. It is still generated text: you, as the teacher, decide whether it suits your class and correct it before approving it.

Can we use the dialogues from our coursebook? You can paste your own text, but material from a publisher requires the publisher's permission. As an alternative, create a new dialogue in Studio on the same situation. And tell your students the voices are AI-generated: it is a form of transparency in line with the EU rules on AI.

Is there a limit for long PDFs? Each file can be up to 50 MB, and each production accepts up to 60,000 characters of text. A long manual should therefore be split into several lessons, which is also the best way to listen to it.

FYNQ Studio is included in the FYNQ Studio and Publisher plans: to choose the right one for your classes, see the pricing page.

Read also:

• PDF to Audiobook With AI: How to Prepare Your File