Speakable Reviews & Product Details

Speakable has the capability of rating samples using the ACTFL proficiency scale and providing students with detailed feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Speakable is off to a good start but has a lot of issues -- sometimes the voice-to-text transcriptions are WAY off, I've had students be told they were not speaking the target language (when they were) and that their samples were not long enough (when they were), etc. But on the bright side, complaints to the company seem to be received and answered quickly and helpfully even to the extent of taking suggestions for future updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the different options on the Speakable platform that I can use to make full lessons. I am also able to do gradual release of supports. I really like the visuals that come from the AI-generated content. It does a really good job of making it look like a picture, not just clipart. Lastly, I like how much it mimics the WIDA access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like that I'm not able to give a student more chances after I assign the lesson. If they get two chances to get a response and write "I don't know" or just letters, I can't give them more chances. It's really difficult if a student bombed the assessment and I have a conference with them and want to give them another opportunity to make it right. I would like to be able to reset their chances. The initial setup was a little difficult just because it was not approved in my district for use on student Chromebooks. I had to go through the process of getting it approved, which was a timely process that took a couple of months. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use Speakable for warm-ups and proficiency tracking, and it really helps solve the problem of providing feedback to a large number of students. One of my favorite aspects is the portfolio feature with proficiency tracking, as it provides me with the necessary information to offer personalized guidance to each of my 130 students. The initial setup was easy when I started using it myself, although it became a bit more complicated during pilot implementation and when transitioning to a paid plan. Overall, Speakable has been a valuable tool for efficiently managing my teaching needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish it were more inexpensive. My district uses Schoology, and we do not have the proper plan for that integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Efficiently gives feedback to students and is very user-friendly from both the teacher and student end of the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that if you would like to alter an assignment after assigning it, you are not able to do so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Speakable.io is your friendly neighborhood SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION COACH, down to the syllable level!! It is an absolute must for most subjects, not just language teachers. It not only saves many, many hours, but the detailed feedback and correction does a more thorough and excellent job than any of us could do if we had literally nothing else to do. The thoughtful, sensitive, encouraging, detailed, accurate, extensive feedback with grammar correction, compliance evaluation, suggestions, and assessment per standards cannot be done by us teachers. Student portfolios keep track of ongoing progress in oral and written work, even listening and reading comprehension. Upload your own rubrics for evaluation, or ACTFL, or whichever. Social Studies, history, and language arts teachers, not just world language teachers, should be using it for oral and written exams. Up your game x 1000! The personal customer support by developers we come to know and recognize, webinars, personal zoom troubleshooting is so unusual these days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm not sure if there is an 'I give up" feature for words that are difficult to pronounce, but if not, there needs to be. My students got hung up on the French U, which modeling in the app doesn't teach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It allows my students to get immediate feedback on their speaking and writing proficiency and how to improve their pronunciation and grammar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have had students report issues with their language not being understood by the AI or it does not accurately register what they said. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The instant feedback that is possible with the Speakable prompts is game changing for 1) keeping my teacher sanity and 2) keeping my Gen Z learners engaged. In the "old world", they would submit their answers and have to wait for me to grade them. Whenever they received the feedback, their brain was somewhere new and feedback always felt powerless. With Speakable, feedback is now FULL POWER. Within 24 hours of posting my first assignment, 8 students emailed me or came up to me after class (completely unsolicited) to tell me "how much they ENJOYED that assignment". The instant feedback and breakdown of their work completely changes everything about language learning for me. The prompt builder is so ease to use and easy to push to Google Classroom so everything is integrated and organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Occasionally the feedback generated by the AI can be too broad or too picky and it can take some dialing in to get your feedback just right. It's a learning curve for me but not too bad. Sometimes the organization or gradebook view of the prompts and the data is clunky and requires a lot of clicks to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using Speakable for 2 years now and I find it student and teacher friendly. I can quickly view student work and results whether by listening to their recordings or reading the scripted version of their recording with the AI feedback and corrections. It is an amazing tool and it has helped my students develop their oral proficiency. I love the ACTFL proficiency level feedback. The customer support is always available. I use Speakable with my students on a weekly basis. It si incredibly teacher and student friendly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The images don't always match the vocabulary or are not age appropriate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing I like about Speakable is that my students can practice their speaking , listening, and writing skills with instant feedback.

I have used it when I am out sick and they have a speaking assignment. They get instant grades.

It makes my grading so much better and less time consuming!

Now, what I loved about it? I saw my students interact, practice , practice, laugh and enjoy learning! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes student voices were not recorded correctly. I had to create another assignment. It was a bit time consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My students absolutly love the fact they can do this at home (private!), and the gamified aspect.

I absolutly love the automatic grading aspect based on National or State standards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our microphones on our student computers are too sensitive for the students to use this in class. We tried a fe times, some students were able to do it, others' microphones kept picking up the other students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.