Currently, there are many tools available to help students create dialogues for listening practice in English, or for teachers to use as content in their English lesson plans.
Currently, there are many tools available to help create English listening practice dialogues for students to self-study or for teachers to use as content in English lesson plans . All dialogue creation tools allow you to choose the voice, narrator, speed, etc. Below is a guide on creating English listening practice dialogues using various tools.
How to create English listening practice dialogues on DupDub
Step 1:
First, access the link below and then proceed to register a personal account.
https://www.dupdub.com/
Step 2:
On the website interface, we click on the AI voiceover tool to extract audio from the content.
In the interface shown in the image, we select the Multiple voiceovers option to create a dialogue.
Step 3:
Continue typing the dialogue for each character below to get the content. Press Enter to finish a line of dialogue and move to the next line.
Step 4:
Click on the image in each line of dialogue to select the voice you want to use. Then, choose the accent you want to use, the gender of the characters, and the age range for each character in the dialogue you are creating.
Next, you adjust the reading speed and pitch to your liking. After choosing your desired voice, you need to select that character for each line of dialogue.
Step 5:
Click on the line of speech where you want to pause , then select Add Pause to set up pauses so that students can listen and understand the content more easily.
You can choose a break using the available options or enter it directly to apply.
Finally, click the Generate icon to create a conversation to listen to based on the content you have set up.
To download the conversation, click Export and then choose a free format that is supported for downloading.
How to create English listening practice conversations on Google AI Studio
Step 1:
You can prepare the data you want to convert into an English dialogue, or you can use Gemini to generate a dialogue on a specific topic.
As a result, we have the following conversation in English.
Step 2:
Visit the Google AI Studio website, then click on Text to Speech to convert text to speech.
We chose Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview for a more natural-sounding voice.
Step 3:
Switch to the text input interface and paste the entire dialogue you created in Gemini into Google AI Studio.
Next, look to the side and name the characters corresponding to the characters in the dialogue. Then, choose a tone of voice for each character in the dialogue.
Step 4:
You add a description of the tone of voice to this dialogue, then click Run below to play the dialogue.
Wait a moment and you will see the English dialogue with the two characters you created. Click on the three-dot icon and download the audio file for your lecture.
Once you have the audio file, teachers can convert it into a lesson plan using NotebookLM, following the instructions below.
- Instructions on converting videos into lesson plans using NotebookLM