Language Lab Techniques for (Self-)Evaluation and Grading of Student Recordings with Audacity
This quick and dirty (not narrated and uncut: time is money, and storage cheap…) video 
demonstrates a technique in (the free audio editor) Audacity with which instructors and students can more easily (self-)evaluate parallel recordings from (be it model imitation, question-response, or consecutive interpreting exercises in) the language lab (in this case the output of a Sanako Study1200, which automatically gets stored in a folder on network share):
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When? |
What? |
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how to load 10 student files à 5mb = 2:30min (but as a batch, allowing you do something else in the foreground instead of waiting) |
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2,50 |
how to select a part of the timeline to play |
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3,00 |
how to move tracks up to more easily work with them and the menu |
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3,30 |
how to play all tracks simultaneously (choir, normally not very useful for evaluation) |
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3,40 |
how to play only one track (solo): evaluate & compare |
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