A Chinese podcast is playing. Every word is on screen.
Podcastly turns the episode into a transcript that follows the audio. Scroll, and the highlight keeps pace.
Real shows, at real speed.
No graded readers. Two hosts, talking the way people talk, and the transcript is made once, then shared with everyone who asks for that episode.
Wait. What was that?
One word you have never seen, and it is the only thing between you and the sentence. In the app you tap it.
吐槽. tǔ cáo.
To gripe, to roast, to complain for laughs. The dictionary has 0 entries and answers offline.
The example is the line you were just listening to.
Pinyin above every word, the translation underneath, and a voice that reads it back.
Save it.
It goes into your words with the sentence it came from. The free plan keeps 50; Pro keeps all of them.
Your turn.
Close the sheet and tap any other word in the transcript. Every one of them opens.
Your words, in one place.
Each one keeps the line it came from. Tap the speaker to hear it again.
Then they come back.
Spaced repetition, the same schedule Anki uses. Get a card right and it waits a day, then three, then longer. Miss it and it is back in ten minutes.
Ten minutes a day is the goal.
Or twenty cards. The streak counts whichever you hit first.
Any show in the directory.
Podcastly searches Apple's podcast catalogue in the US and in China. A transcript anyone has asked for before opens instantly. A new one for a 30-minute episode takes about 20 seconds.
Pick up where you stopped.
Episodes you started wait on the home screen, with their transcript status.
Free to listen. Metered to transcribe.
Listening, the dictionary and every episode that already has a transcript are free and unlimited. The free plan adds an hour of new transcription a week and 50 saved words.
Podcastly Pro adds
- 10 hours of new transcription a month
- Unlimited saved words
- Natural Google voices, all day
- Translations, examples and stories
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