Case: your own material

Who this is for: people with concrete expression goals — an English meeting next month, an interview coming up, a trip where you’ll be ordering food.

Textbook dialogues always fall half-short: they don’t teach what you need to say. Craft flips it around — you say it in your language first, AI rewrites it idiomatically, synthesises the audio, and you practise your own sentence.

Step 1: list what you actually need to say this week

Don’t rehearse “How are you” — you can already say that. Grab a note and write the expressions that actually stuck you in real situations:

• Meeting: “Let’s pilot this plan for one quarter and review the data next quarter.”
• Daily: “I’m running late for work today.”
• Interview: “I led a team of three at my last company.”

Each line is one practice item.

Step 2: turn it into English in Craft

Craft has two modes (one page in Enjoy Player; two side-panel entries in the web app):

	Express (default)	Advanced
How	Speak your language → speech recognition → AI rewrite → synthesise	Paste or type text → “Translate” and “Synthesise” panels
Best for	Thoughts as they occur — fastest	Text you’ve already drafted and want to polish

For “今天上班快迟到了”, the Express pipeline runs:

1. Hold to speak (your language, or just type);
2. Speech recognition turns it into text — confirm it’s right;
3. AI rewrites it idiomatically — I’m running late for work. (the literal “I will be late to go to work today” is stiff);
4. Pick a voice and speed, synthesise — one library item saved.

Step 3: practise it like any material

The result lands in your library — shadowing, pronunciation scoring, pitch contour, vocabulary, everything works as usual. There’s one unique benefit: you just needed this sentence, or will need it soon, so you’ll dare to use it in real life — far more natural than textbook “translationese”.

Save the rewritten expression into vocabulary — the AI rewrite is your “expression upgrade log”, and reviewing words reviews the upgrade too.

Step 4: keep it rolling

• Say it when it happens: keep Express at hand, collect 5–10 items a week, one minute each;
• Replay weekly: find last week’s items in history and shadow them once quickly;
• By scenario: two weeks before an interview, turn the ten sentences of your self-introduction into material and drill them.

Note

Rewriting and synthesis use credits; a single input is capped at 5,000 characters. For long text (a whole talk), the Advanced translate panel fits better.

Pair this case with

• Craft: say what you mean — both modes in detail;
• Echo (shadowing) — what to do with the synthesised audio;
• Credits & plans — what synthesis costs.