Take the podcasts you already listen to and make them language practice. Do the same with your own recordings and audio links. Made by language learners, for language learners.
E-clair shows you the transcript while you listen, synced word by word. Tap anything you don't know for a translation, save it to your notebook, and it comes back later as a flashcard.
WHAT YOU CAN STUDY
• Podcasts. Subscribe to a show and study its episodes.
• Your own recordings. A voice memo, a lesson with your tutor, an audiobook chapter.
• Audio links. Paste a direct link to an audio file (MP3, M4A, WAV and similar) and E-clair fetches it.
You're not limited to a fixed content library. E-clair works on the audio you already want to listen to, in more than 20 languages.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Add a podcast episode, an audio file, or a link.
2. E-clair transcribes it with word-level timing.
3. Read along while you listen. The transcript follows the audio.
4. Tap a word or phrase to translate it.
5. Save it to your notebook and review it as a flashcard.
FEATURES
Transcript in sync with the audio
The line you're hearing is highlighted as it plays. The timing is word by word, so you can follow along even when the speech is fast.
Translate by tapping
Tap a word, tap a phrase, or drag across part of a line to translate only that part. You stay in the episode the whole time.
Replay one word or one sentence
Press replay and only that word or sentence plays, then it stops. It's for the sentence you've rewound five times and still can't make out.
Notebook
Save words and phrases while you listen. Each entry keeps its translation, its position in the audio, and the episode it came from, so you can hear it in context again.
Flashcards with spaced repetition
Your notebook becomes review material: two-sided cards, or fill-in-the-blank cards made from sentences you actually heard. Reviews are scheduled with FSRS, a modern spaced-repetition algorithm. Cards you find hard come back sooner, cards you know come back less often, and you review in short sessions instead of re-reading everything.
Collections
Group episodes and recordings by show, by course, or however you organize your study.
Curated shows
A list of podcasts chosen for clear speech and reasonable difficulty. Their transcripts are ready the moment you open an episode.
LANGUAGES
E-clair transcribes more than 20 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Japanese and Korean.
WHO IT IS FOR
People past the beginner stage. You can follow a simple conversation, but native speech at full speed is still hard to catch. If you already have podcasts you like, or recordings from your lessons, you can study those instead of working through another course. That's what E-clair does to a podcast: it turns audio that's over your head into comprehensible input. Read along, tap what you don't know, and speech at full speed becomes something you can follow.
If you only want a transcript to read once, a transcription app will do the job. E-clair is built for the audio you come back to: working through the same episode, and keeping what you got out of it.
QUESTIONS WE GET
Does it work with any podcast?
Add any show by its feed. Curated shows are already transcribed; anything else is transcribed when you open an episode.
Is this comprehensible input?
That's the idea. An episode that's too fast to follow becomes input you can understand, and the same episode gets easier every time you come back to it.
Is it free?
It's free to start. Reading, translating, saving and reviewing aren't the paid part.
I'm ADHD, in my 40s, a parent and work full time. I freaking LOVE this app.I do best with variety of resources for language learning, and this app has been a much-needed addition for my ADHD brain and its relentless ability to procrastinate even the things I _want_ to do😫I have three target languages that I am working on (Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan and French) and have a variety of language apps and books I like, but I do not have the time or focus to routinely sit for long periods of time and slog away on language learning. I’ve deleted many language apps after realizing they take more effort to set up than I have energy to lock in.My language learning looks like sporadic deep dives into vocabulary or verb conjugation (or obscure history on something vaguely related) and then I zoom out and get back to everything else in my life that I’m responsible for (parenting, work, house maintenance… )In between those rabbit holes, I regularly listen to current news podcasts and a few other podcasts in the target languages until another rabbit hole catches my attention.Low comprehension in the most recent target language? I don’t care, I am triumphant in catching the five words needed to recognize what news item they’re covering that I already know about🤩🤩🤩 The auto-generated transcripts available while you listen in Spotify or Apple Podcast are super helpful, but…If I actually want to look up words or phrases (or whole chunks), the process I was using is a time suck. I was not doing it as often as I wanted to. The e-Clair app does what it says it does. It makes learning from podcasts super streamlined. It's easy to set up. You basically chose what language you want things translated into then add what you want to listen to (for me: podcasts).From there it’s like a regular podcast player (has a library, it knows where you left off, you can go back or skip forward, change the play-back speed, etc) but with way more features. Want to translate every sentence as you go? Easy. Tap a word in the sentence with a long pause. A popup opens up with the translation and you can tap options to save it to in-app flashcards or in-app notes. Then you go right back to listening.If your earbuds or headphones have their own button or tap control to pause or play, the app recognizes it.Listening while doing something else and a word catches your ear that you want to look up? Same deal, just pause listening and tap that word. The translation pops up and you have the option to save it as a flash card and/or add it to your in-app notes.For me, this is FANTASTIC. This removes a ton of initiation barriers by having it all in one app. I can easily just listen while doing other things. But if something catches my ear, I just pause it and tap on the word to look it up (and make a flashcard if I want).Adding a podcast feed to the app is pretty easy (I use the rss link option). I google to find the direct link for that podcasts’s rss feed. Then, in the app, just tap the add button in the app and paste the link in the add window. That’s it.The developer really welcomes feedback, the app is a work in progress but already does a LOT with ease.Thank you for coming to my TedTalk. Download the app, you’ll love it.
Developer Response
Your feedback left me utterly speechless! 🥹🥹🥹. I can’t stop reading it over and over again 😍😍😍 ... it represents all the hours, late nights, and weekends I have dedicated and continue to dedicate to developing the app. It brings me immense joy to see it helping you with a problem.Thank you so much for your feedback! It provides the incredible motivation I need to keep doing my best with this app.I'm thrilled that you gave the app a try. It truly is a pleasure to serve you! 🫶🫶🫶
New:
• An Emails setting on the Me tab to subscribe/unsubscribe to/from emails.
Improved:
• The Me tab groups settings under clearer headings.
Version 2.4.0
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Information
Seller
Muzaffar Omer
Size
34.2 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
