Turn the coursebook you already teach from into phonics-correct listening drills.
Upload a PDF, PPTX, DOCX — or just a photo of a textbook page. Languages Lab reads every vocabulary word, example sentence and question, then renders phonics-correct, IPA-accurate audio your students practise online or completely offline. No re-typing, no re-authoring, no app for students to install.
Free trial · no card required · works with the books you own today.
Everything a listening lesson needs, from one upload
Upload → extract → drill → publish.
Other tools do one slice of this. Languages Lab does the entire pipeline — so a page of your book becomes a set of drills in minutes, not an evening of copy-paste.
Drop in a PDF, PPTX, DOCX, or a phone photo of a page. Scanned or native — both work.
AI-powered OCR reads even scanned pages; a text-trust check re-reads garbled ones automatically.
Every item is typed — title, vocabulary, sentence, question, answer — with a review queue for anything low-confidence.
Phonics-correct audio in multiple modes: word-repeat, sentence-repeat, AI repeat-after-me, backchaining.
Share an in-app viewer, or export a self-contained HTML bundle students open from a flash drive.
Three things nobody else puts together.
Phonics-correct, not just “natural”.
<phoneme>tags and timed 500 ms breaks, so young learners hear each syllable and sound clearly. Storytelling still gets a warm, natural voice.It teaches your book, faithfully.
Works with no internet.
Bring the books you already own.
No template to fill, no content to re-create. Upload the file — or photograph the page — and Languages Lab does the reading.
- ✓PDF (native and scanned), PPTX, DOCX, PNG/JPG/WebP photos
- ✓AI-powered OCR with automatic fallback reads image-only pages
- ✓Per-page “text-trust” automatically re-OCRs garbled / mojibake text
- ✓Column-aware tables recovered as structured vocabulary rows
Drills built for how children actually learn.
Not one flat “read the page” voice — a set of purpose-built practice modes, with the word lighting up in time with the audio.
- ✓Word-repeat, sentence-repeat, AI-chunked repeat-after-me, backchaining
- ✓Karaoke word-boundary highlighting synced to real speech timing
- ✓Adjustable speed & repeat-pause, per learner
- ✓Multi-voice: strict phonics voice for drills, natural voice for stories
A review queue, so nothing wrong ever ships.
Extraction is scored for confidence and quality. Anything doubtful is flagged for a quick human check — and a lesson that recovered no real content is never silently “done”.
- ✓Confidence-scored items route to a keyboard-fast review queue
- ✓Approve, edit or reject —
a / e / x - ✓Low-quality extractions surface as “needs review”, with one-click re-extract
- ✓Every AI call is metered on a per-tenant usage ledger
Most tools do one slice. We do the loop.
We looked hard for a like-for-like competitor. The market splits into content generators, pronunciation scorers, and raw TTS — none combine your coursebook, phonics-correct drills and offline delivery.
| Capability | Languages Lab | AI lesson generators Twee, MagicSchool, EdTool… | Pronunciation apps ELSA, Amira, Reading Coach… | TTS platforms Murf, Speechify, Play.ht… |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upload your existing coursebook | Yes | Some | Paste text only | No |
| Faithfully extracts the original items | Yes | Generates new | No | No |
| Phonics-correct IPA/SSML drill audio | Yes | No | Scores, not renders | Voice only |
| Repeat-after-me & karaoke sync | Yes | No | Read-aloud | No |
| Offline student delivery | HTML bundle | No | Cloud / app | No |
| Built & sold for schools (multi-tenant) | Yes | Mixed | Mixed | No |
Comparison reflects publicly-documented capabilities as of 2025–2026. Every product listed is excellent at its own slice — none does the whole pipeline.
“The lesson is already written. Languages Lab just makes it speak — correctly — and hands it to students, even where the internet doesn't reach.”
Your next lesson could speak by tonight.
Upload one coursebook page and hear it come back as clean, phonics-correct drills. Free to try.