Getting Started for Teachers

With Speedpast, you can give your students an automatically generated daily audio podcast that reviews the material from your class. Students listen on their commute, during a workout, or anywhere else they'd normally listen to a podcast — no screen required.

Here's how it works.

1. Create an audiodeck and audiocards

An audiodeck is a collection of audiocards. Each audiocard is a flashcard with an audio prompt (the "front") and an audio response (the "back") — for example, “What's the capital of France?” followed by “Paris.”

You can create the audio in two ways, and you can mix both kinds freely within a single audiodeck:

• Text to speech. Type the prompt and response, and Speedpast generates natural-sounding audio for you.
• Your own recordings. Upload or record audio yourself when you want a specific voice, pronunciation, or sound.

2. Audiocards are mixed into daily sets

The audiocards in an audiodeck are automatically combined into daily sets — the individual podcast episodes your students listen to. Each audiocard reappears across several sets on a spaced-repetition schedule, so material is reviewed more often when it's new and less often as it sinks in.

For example, a audiocard might be reviewed 4 times in its first set, then 3 times, then 2, then take a day off, and so on. You can adjust this schedule per audiodeck — see the FAQ for the default schedule and how to change it.

3. Share with your students

You have two ways to get this material to your students, each with its own advantages:

• Share the audiodeck. Students subscribe with their own Speedpast account and generate their own sets. They can tailor it to themselves — adding their own material, changing how many times each audiocard repeats, even adjusting the pause between prompt and response.
• Share the sets. Download the generated sets as audio files and distribute them yourself. This requires the least setup from your students — they just press play.