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We use Audacity to administer oral tests. You can record the questions and then
insert beeps and silences. Then open the recording in Audacity and click Record
to start a second track. At the end, you can keep both tracks or keep only the
students' answers, whichever you prefer. It's free and pretty reliable. I'd say
we have less than a 1% failure rate (where Audacity crashes and the recording
gets lost and the student has to redo it). 

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Duke University
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>Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:35:50 -0500
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>Subject: looking for alternatives to ETS Speak Test

Hello List members,
 
I am looking for alternatives to the old ETS SPEAK Test on audio cassette.
 
Any suggestions?
 
Thanks in advance.
 
 
Tracy N. Dingess
Senior Lecturer
Technology Coordinator
Department of Foreign Languages,
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6297
Morgantown, WV  26506
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