How to Use SpeakPipe for Speaking Activities

SpeakPipe is a simple tool for sharing audio messages with your students. Students can send recordings to you, or you can record messages and share them with your students. SpeakPipe has a free option, so it is an easy tool to try if you want to add more speaking activities to your class.

One useful feature is that you get a page with a link that you can share with your students. Students open the page, click the record button, allow access to their microphone, and start talking. They can listen to their recording before sending it and can add their name and email if they want. Once they send the recording, it appears in your SpeakPipe inbox, where you can listen to it.

The basic process is very simple:

1. Create your SpeakPipe page. Set up an account and get a page that you can share with your class.
2. Share the link. Students can open the recording page on a computer or smartphone.
3. Give students a speaking task. They might answer a question, practice a grammar point, give an opinion, or record a short audio journal.
4. Students record their message. They can listen to the recording before sending it and record it again if necessary.
5. Collect the recordings. The messages appear in your inbox, where you can listen to your students' speaking.
6. Reuse the audio. You can use student recordings for feedback or collect audio for class projects and presentations.

There are lots of simple speaking activities you can do with SpeakPipe. For example, students could send you one audio journal each week. You could ask them to answer a question, talk about their weekend, or use the week's grammar point several times during a one-minute recording. You could also exchange recordings back and forth and create a simple audio conversation.

I think SpeakPipe works especially well with a class rather than with the general public. You can share the link with a specific group and have one place to collect their recordings. You can also make your own recording and share the audio with students using a link. It is a simple way to get students speaking and to collect audio without needing a complicated recording system.