Learner: start speaking

Oral Console learners practice, complete tasks, view History, and take exams.

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Audience: Oral Console learners · Applies to: Oral Console

Goal: After switching to Learner, walk practice → tasks → History → exams.

Sign-in: How to use Oral Console. Sign up, then switch to Learner in the header (you do not need a second account). After production + sign-in mint you cannot sign in to the Console; open speaking from the school system. See Two formal embed methods.

Before you start

Signed in as Learner.
Browser allows the microphone. Computers and phones: Devices and access.

Where in the UI

Sidebar: Home / Practice / My tasks / History / Exams / Me (phone bar: Home / Practice / Assignments / Exams or History / Me). Usage lives on Home or Me. Appearance, language, and Speaking practice experience (default method, Talk live tab, auto-play, partner avatar) are in Settings (gear). Home primary CTA is Start practice.

Steps

Tap Start practice or Practice. On the practice surface, practice mode is only Free speaking or Scenario practice (unlike SaaS Self practice, which may also offer voice dialogue, roleplay, pronunciation drill, exam-prep, etc.). For scenario practice, pick a scenario next (filtered by target language).
Choose Talk live / Tap to talk / Review & send, then tap Start session before you speak.
AI feedback sits under the speaking dock; Keyword hints start collapsed.
Open My assignments for publisher-assigned work (if empty, switch to Publisher, create one, then switch back).
Open History for results.
Open Exams when the demo plan includes exams.
Usage shows personal Usage time (minutes) and quota; no billing reconciliation needed.

Learners can also change Speaking practice experience in Settings. Speaking methods and session steps match the student app: Start speaking practice. For the full SaaS Self practice mode list, see Self practice: modes and scenarios.

History in Console vs production

	Oral Console	Embedded in your product (production)
Entry	Sidebar History	Your product entry → embed the report surface (`report`)
Identity	Current trial account	External user id on sign-in mint (widget is a roster learner-code session)
Write scores back to school systems	None (demo)	Requires mint + your backend calling API / webhook. See How to get exam scores and view records

How to confirm success

Practice can record and return a reply.
When a task exists, My assignments opens and submits it.
History shows the matching session.
An exam can be submitted (when the plan allows).

Common failures