Fluency Recorder

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Timing Mode

Timer Length

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Headset check

1 · Can you hear it?

Put the headset on. Tap each button and say whether the sound comes from the headphones or from the iPad's own speaker.

Sound from the iPad instead of the headphones means the plug is not in far enough. Unplug it, turn it so the bend points towards the back of the iPad, and push until it stops.

2 · Is the microphone alive?

Scratch the side of the microphone with a fingernail, then read a line out loud. The bar should jump.

Not listening yet

3 · Which microphone is it really using?

This is the test that matters. Read out loud normally for three seconds, then do it again with a finger held over the headset microphone. If covering it changes nothing, the iPad is listening to the room instead of the headset.

4 · Hear yourself as you read

Sends the microphone straight to the headphones so you can hear what is being picked up.

Only with the headset on. Through the iPad's speaker this will screech, because the microphone hears its own output.

5 · Record five seconds and play it back

The same path a real recording takes. If this sounds like the room rather than the reader, the headset microphone is not being used.