"Prompter" - a service for learning English by immigrants from "Yandex"
Ios / / December 20, 2019
Learning English is still relevant, and ways to do this is becoming more and more every day. An interesting approach demonstrated Developer Services "Prompter"Offering to learn the language with the help of podcasts with subtitles.
The creation of "prompter" are former employees "Yandex", Yuri Vorontsov, Yuri Ananiev. They hatched the idea of service in 2014, but reached only the immediate implementation this summer. Now the same name application is already available in the App Store. Android version on the way and due out before the end of the year.
"Prompter" proposes to listen to English-language podcasts (TED, 6 Minute English, and others) with English subtitles. Audio and text to them are loaded from public sources, and the contextual translation of words and phrases It is automatically created using open tools: Dictionaries "Yandex" and PROMT, as well as the syntactic parser.
Authors applications are confident that their creation will help to better perceive the English language at the hearing, and a text translation will allow to clarify the meaning of unfamiliar words.
All podcasts and texts to them saved in the device memory. Listen to them without translation is possible without restrictions. If you are using a free version of the app, you can receive up to ten translations of words or phrases in the day. For unlimited access to the translation will have to pay 249 rubles per month, or 1190 rubles per year.
Price: Free