Listen and Repeat
Hear a sentence once and repeat it immediately — seven sentences of increasing difficulty from one situation.
- 7 sentences from one everyday situation
- Each sentence is heard once, then repeated immediately
- Increasing difficulty · a clock shows your speaking time
- Speaking section · speech-to-text + alignment scoring
What this task is
Listen and Repeat is a Speaking task built around one everyday campus or work situation. You hear each of seven sentences a single time and repeat it back right away, with a clock showing your speaking time. The sentences get harder as you go, testing listening accuracy and clear reproduction.
Speech alignment scoring
Your spoken repetition is transcribed by speech-to-text and graded primarily by token-level alignment between your transcript and the target sentence — counting insertions, deletions, and substitutions — with transcript confidence used as an intelligibility proxy. Because it's transcript-based, pronunciation and intonation can't be fully judged; feedback is positioned as a structured estimate, not an official spoken score.
Strategy tips
- Listen for the whole sentence's meaning, not just isolated words — meaning helps you reconstruct it.
- Start speaking promptly; the clock rewards immediate, fluent repetition.
- Speak clearly and at a steady pace so the transcription captures every word.
- If you miss a word, keep going — a near-complete sentence scores better than a stalled one.
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Frequently asked questions
How many sentences are there?
Seven, all drawn from one everyday campus or work situation, increasing in difficulty.
How is it scored?
Speech-to-text transcribes your repetition, then it's scored by alignment to the target sentence — insertions, deletions, and substitutions — with confidence as an intelligibility signal.
Does it judge my pronunciation?
Only indirectly. Scoring is transcript-based, so pronunciation and intonation can't be fully assessed; feedback is an estimate, not an official score.
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