Your courses can talk now: a new podcast feature is live

What changed

There's a new lesson type in the course creation wizard: Podcast. Pick it and Ervy narrates the lessons, so people can listen instead of reading.

How it works

Choose Podcast while you're building the course. Ervy generates the audio from your material, and the lesson editor now has a player built in, so you can hear every lesson before anyone else does.

For the person taking the course, nothing moves. The lesson still arrives in the same Teams chat; it just has a play button on it now.

While it plays, the transcript follows the voice. The sentence being spoken is highlighted and centres itself on screen, so people can read along or lock the phone and keep going.

If someone stops in the middle, the player remembers. Next time they open the lesson it resumes at the last unfinished point instead of starting over.

Courses with audio are marked on their course card, so they're easy to find in the list.

Why it matters

Reading a lesson takes a screen, both eyes and a quiet minute. Plenty of people don't have all three during a working day. Shop floors, warehouses, vans, site visits, and anyone whose calendar is back to back. Podcast lessons give them the same training in a format they can get through with their hands full.

The transcript helps here too. People working in a second language get the voice and the text at the same time, and anyone in a noisy space can switch from listening to reading without losing their place.

How to use it

Create a course, choose Podcast as the lesson type, publish. Preview the audio in the lesson editor first if you want to hear how it sounds.

Available now for all Ervy users.