English dictation and AI talk.
You know the words but can't hear them — decoding leaves no room for meaning.
earo finds what you missed and widens it until you hear it.
You know the words. But you can't hear them.
Bingeing shows or grinding dictation rarely moves the needle, and there is a reason. You keep listening without knowing where you lost it. If you can't tell where the sound slipped past, a hundred plays slip past a hundred times.
In real speech, words run together and sounds vanish. "What do you" arrives as one blurred shape. Working that shape out takes all the room in your head, so there is none left for meaning.
Note — earo is built for Korean speakers learning English. Hints and translations are in Korean.
earo does not ask you to listen more. It points at the spot you missed, then widens it a step at a time until you can hear it.
■ You see exactly where it slipped past
Listen and fill the blank. Get it wrong and that stretch plays again, with what you wrote set beside what was said. "I just couldn't hear it" becomes "I lost it right here."
■ You start where you actually are
A short situational check places you, and playback speed and blank size follow from it. Nothing is too fast to survive or too easy to be worth your time. There is a very slow starting tier.
■ You can see whether you are getting better
Come back to a sentence you solved and the blank widens by one step: a word, then a phrase, then the whole line. A sentence you barely caught yesterday — you find out today whether you hear it.
■ You keep the audio you already listen to
Pick an mp3, m4a, mp4 or wav file and it becomes dictation. The podcast or lecture you already follow stops being background noise.
■ You get ready for speech that does not pause
Any clip you have worked on can be played end to end, any time. Filling blanks stops at every sentence; real conversation doesn't. Hearing it joined up is where you learn how the seams work.
■ You move from understanding to speaking
Talk with an AI partner in English. Stuck? Say it in Korean, and you'll be shown how it would have gone in English, then get another try.
■ What you missed comes back before you forget it
Missed sentences are collected for you and return at spaced intervals. Sounds you keep missing are gathered on their own. Nothing for you to organize.
■ No subtitles. On purpose
With subtitles you are reading, not listening. Ten minutes a day of short exchanges — cafés, clinics, airports — is enough.
■ This is for you if
· Films are out of reach without subtitles
· You know the words and the grammar, but your ears won't open
· You care about actually following speech, not a test score
· You have tried several methods and still can't tell what is wrong
■ Tell us anything
Settings has a "Send feedback" line. One sentence is enough. We do not ask for your name or your email.
■ Permissions
· Microphone — used only to recognize your English during conversation practice
· Notifications — tells you when reviews are due (can be turned off in settings)
■ Subscription
· Titles — earo Monthly / earo Yearly
· Length and price — KRW 11,900 per month / KRW 79,000 per year (VAT included)
· You can try earo for free after installing. Continuing beyond the trial requires a subscription.
· Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled, and the same amount is charged again.
· Cancel anytime in your App Store subscription settings; access continues through the end of the period you have already paid for.
· Terms of Use (EULA) — https://earo.co.kr/legal/terms.html
· Privacy Policy — https://earo.co.kr/legal/privacy.html
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This build replaces builds 32 through 35. It contains the same two new
screens as build 32, plus four fixes. All of them were verified on a physical
Android device before submitting. Sign-in, subscriptions, in-app
purchases, permissions, and data handling are unchanged. No new permissions
are requested.
1) Feedback (free-text, one line)
Where: Settings > "Send feedback". It also appears once in a while after
a dictation result screen, with a Skip button of equal weight.
What it does: sends one short text note to the developer's own database.
The text is NEVER shown to any other user, is not published anywhere in
the app, and there is no feed, profile, or messaging. It is write-only:
the app cannot read back any note, including the user's own. We do not
ask for a name, an email address, or any contact detail. Notes are
deleted with the account.
2) Listen again to a finished clip
Where: Home > pick a topic > tap a clip you have already worked on. Under
that row there is a "Listen straight through" button.
What it does: plays the clip audio end to end. It does not open the
dictation exercise and does not consume a trial episode.
Fixed in this build
• Clip list: the highlight colour and the tap ripple of rows you have
already worked on were painted by a container placed above the row, which
covered them. The colour is now painted on the row itself.
• Conversation audio: when the storage gateway timed out, the audio attached
to a saved phrase card was dropped silently, so the card appeared in review
without sound. That upload is idempotent, so it is now retried once.
• Dropped connections were not recognised as network failures, so they were
reported as application errors instead of connectivity warnings. They are
classified correctly now. No network call was added or repeated.
• Sign-up sheet: with the on-screen keyboard open, the sheet was taller than
the space left for it, so the "Send code" button was clipped on shorter
screens and at larger text sizes. The sheet now scrolls. This is the only
change in this build compared with build 35.
How to try it
• Settings > "Send feedback" > type anything > Send. A thank-you toast
appears. Nothing is displayed back.
• Home > any topic > finish one clip > return to the topic list. The row for
that clip is tinted, taps show a ripple, and a "Listen straight through"
button sits under it.
Also in this build: spelling variants such as "alright" / "all right" are no
longer graded as wrong, and internal analytics fields were added. Neither is
visible as a new screen.
Version 1.1.6
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Information
Seller
Pracsol Inc.
Size
37.2 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.