Turn podcast episodes into ready-to-send English lessons

Turns a weekly English-learning podcast episode into a complete lesson with vocabulary and audio, delivered by email.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Advanced

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The problem it solves

Building a fresh English lesson every week takes hours: finding good audio, writing exercises, and recording vocabulary practice. If you teach or tutor English, that prep time eats into time you could spend actually teaching.

Who it fits

ESL teachers, tutors, and language schools who send a regular English lesson to students.

How it works

  1. Runs on a set schedule and checks a podcast feed for the newest episode
  2. Skips any episode already sent before
  3. Pulls the episode's transcript and vocabulary list
  4. AI writes an intro, fill-in-the-blank exercises, and discussion questions
  5. Turns the vocabulary into a slow audio track and emails the full lesson
What you get

Lessons ready to send every week

You get a full English lesson built from each new podcast episode, ready to send to your students.

What you get

A formatted email lesson with vocabulary, exercises, discussion questions, and an audio file, ready to send to students.

What you need

An email account, an OpenAI account, and an ElevenLabs account for the audio.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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