Last updated on 17 May 2026
Your student travels 45 minutes each morning. He has a French baccalaureate to prepare. And he watches the stations as he listens to music.
Yann Houry, As a letter teacher, she had exactly this problem with her own daughter. Instead of waiting for a platform to finally offer the right resource, he built it himself. With the help of AI.
The result is called Review with Podcasts : ralentirtravaux.com/flo/bac
Behind this page, there is a simple story: a dad who wants to help his daughter prepare for the early French test, and a teacher who decides to put artificial intelligence at the service of pedagogy. The result is really interesting.
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What it is, in a nutshell
A web page. Simple, without advertising, without account to create.
It brings together nearly 100 podcasts from Radio France, all related to the French baccalaureate literature program. These programmes have existed for a long time, France Culture produces a lot of them on the works on the programme, but they had never been put together, organised and made usable in a place designed for high school students.
Rather than leaving these resources scattered on the web, the author chose to aggregating, organizing and enriching in a single space, accessible free of charge.
But the interest of the project does not end there. This is where we even start to say ‘whaouh’.
When AI enriches each podcast: transcripts, summaries and quizzes
This is not just a list of links.
For each podcast, an AI has transcribes audio of the broadcast, produces a summary with the essential points, and generated an understanding quiz.
It is thus possible to obtain, from a simple audio broadcast, a complete pedagogical mini-folder : we listen, we read, we synthesize, we test ourselves. This is precisely what is expected of a good revision tool.
The author himself states that everything has not yet been verified at 100 % : it is an experimentation process, not a finished product. But as it stands, the service is already perfectly usable and offers a demonstration of what AI can produce. when piloted by a teacher who knows what students really need.
The programme covered (for now)
Four works at this stage: the Speech of voluntary servitude of La Boétie, You don’t banter with love Musset, The rage of expression Ponge, Sido Colette and last addition Manon Lescault.
This is not yet exhaustive. But for each, the depth is real. Dozens of hours of podcasts organised, summarised and transformed into subjects to be revised.
What I like about the interface
Progress monitoring first. You can check the podcasts already listened to. This sounds trivial, but it is exactly what makes it possible to work methodically over time. The student knows where they stand.
The filters then: by duration (≤ 10 min, ≤ 30 min, ≤ 60 min) and by status. Useful to exploit small slots, 10 minutes on the bus, 30 minutes before sleeping. Listening is done directly on the page, without referring to Radio France.
Two tabs complete the podcasts: Quiz and Fact Sheets. For those who prefer not to listen or want to work differently after listening.
Yann Houry has also just installed a new ‘Files’ section with complete work review sheets. Excellent.
Uses for teachers
If you have Students who struggle to read but have no trouble listening, this page is for them. One or two podcasts per week on the work in progress, with the summary as the anchor.
For oral preparation, France Culture’s broadcasts often bring the gaze of an academic, a historical context, insights into the reception of a work. Material richer than many review sheets.
And for self-employed pupils: cochable progression, filters, built-in quizzes, everything is structured so that you can move forward on your own, without a teacher having to mark each step.
But the real understated use is this: Show colleagues what a teacher can build when piloting AI. Yann Houry is not a developer. Within weeks, it produced a resource that startup teams take months to deliver.
What is missing
The work is not finished. The verification of AI-generated content is still ongoing, it is not a validated institutional resource, it is a serious personal project, but ongoing.
The program is still partial. Four works is a good start, but it does not cover all the lists according to the academies. If your students are working on other texts, you will not find what is needed yet.
An offline mode would be useful for students without a connection in transport. There is no such thing. This may be an idea for the future.
A project made by a teacher, for real students
We see a lot of AI for education resources designed by startups, with no real connection to the classroom. Here, it is the opposite: a teacher starts from a concrete problem, understands what AI can bring and builds something useful, without a development budget or institutional validation.
Side personal data and economic model, we are on a personal project hosted on the author’s website, without massive collection or commercial logic. This is significant, especially in a world where revision tools often become subscription-based paid platforms.
Review the tray French with Podcasts is a good illustration of what AI can do when it is put at the service of a clear pedagogical intention, by someone who knows both the subject, the curricula and the students. Yann Houry does not seek to replace the professor or oversell the technology: it increases existing resources to make them really usable by high school students in revision.
The project is still ongoing. But it works. To test with your first class students?
Free resource – No account required – Works on mobile – Project by Yann Houry, Letter Teacher
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