Spokt - Read your books, or flip a switch and learn a language
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Spokt turns articles, books, podcasts, and your own MP3s/audiobooks into
word-synced karaoke you read line by line, then flips into Learner Mode:
leveled audio (A1-C2), tap to translate, listening hours that add up.
On-device.
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Hey Product Hunt,
I built Spokt because every language app I tried wanted me to drill
flashcards, and I never once felt like I was understanding anything.
Linguist Stephen Krashen's argument is the opposite: you acquire a
language by consuming hours of real audio and text you actually want to
consume — stories, podcasts, articles — not by drilling sentences a
machine made up.
So I built around that. Flip the Reader/Learner switch and the same app
becomes a comprehensible-input platform. A placement test sets your
level. A Discover feed serves leveled podcasts (streaming from their own
RSS feeds), LibriVox audiobooks, and courses, tagged A1–C2. Word-synced
karaoke transcripts let you follow along; tap any word to translate. A
quiet familiarity engine keeps score of the words you know, and a Today
ring shows your listening hours stacking up.
It's built top-to-bottom on Apple's on-device stack — Speech, Natural
Language, Translation — and localized in 9 languages including full
right-to-left Arabic. Learner Mode is free.
I'm a solo dev and this is the release I most wanted to exist. Tear it
apart — honest feedback is exactly what I'm here for.
— Masaab
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