Teaching Computers How to Listen
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Paris Smaragdis is a teacher at MIT.
- A2
Professor Paris Smaragdis works on computers and sound at MIT.
- B1
In 2025, Professor Paris Smaragdis joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- B2
In 2025, Professor Paris Smaragdis joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- C1
Growing up in Greece, Paris Smaragdis became interested in electronic sound through a small synthesizer, an electronic instrument that creates and alters sounds using electrical signals.
- C2
Growing up in Greece, Paris Smaragdis became interested in electronic sound through a small synthesizer, an electronic instrument that generates and alters audio via electrical signals.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- pattern
- A regular way in which something happens or is done
- device
- A piece of equipment made for a special purpose, especially an electronic one
- feedback
- Advice or information about how good or useful someone's work is
- replace
- To take the place of something or someone
- recognition
- The act of knowing what something is because you have seen or heard it before
- sense
- To feel or notice something, especially something that is hard to see
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.