h5p-dictation

Let your students train their listening comprehension and spelling skills.

You can add audio samples containing a sentence for dictation and enter the correct transcription. Your students can listen to the samples and enter what they have heard in to a text field. Their answers will be evaluated automatically.

Several options will allow you to control the exercise's difficulty. You can optionally add a second audio sample for a sentence that could hold a version spoken slowly. You can also set a limit for how often a sample can be played, define if punctuation should be relevant for scoring, and decide whether small mistakes like typing errors should be counted as no mistake, a full mistake, or just a half mistake.

Example

Building the distribution files

Pull or download this archive files and go into the main folder. There run

npm install

to get the required modules. Then build the project using

npm run build

or

npm run watch

if you want to modify the code and want to get a fresh build built in the background.

For more information on how to use those distribution files in H5P, please have a look at https://youtu.be/xEgBJaRUBGg and the H5P developer guide at https://h5p.org/library-development.

Ideas to think about ...

• Do we need an option for different diff styles?
• Automatic speed change? How to balance speed/pitch?
• Add option for "drag the words" instead of text input fields? But then the name Dictation might be a little misleading
• Use the full featured audio player and marks to jump to? Could be useful for sound samples containing more than one sample.