About DictaBooth
A second brain for learning a language
Watch, read and talk in the language you are learning. DictaBooth keeps every word you meet, brings it back when you are about to forget it, and asks you to use it until it is yours. Free, with no sign-up.
Start with a videoSee how it works
Type and check in all 34. The blue ones can also be spoken and scored.
From the words you meet to the words you use
Watching alone rarely makes a word yours. The words that stay are the ones you met in something you cared about, saw again before they faded, and then said yourself. DictaBooth is built around that path.
- MeetAny YouTube video or web page, a story at your level from A1 to C2, a text, a PDF or a talk. Tap any word for its meaning.
- KeepSave a word with the sentence you met it in. Every try is written down on your device, so nothing you practise is lost.
- Bring backFlashcards come back when you are about to forget, as a card, a word to type or a word to say, with a longer gap each time you remember.
- UseDicta, your guide, plans your new words into a short talk. Say one on your own, unprompted, and it is yours.
Six levels, one word at a time
Every word you save climbs the same six levels, and your report shows how many sit at each. Levels 5 and 6 count as mastered.
- 1Saved
- 2Known on a card
- 3Said with a hint
- 4Said without a hint
- 5Used on your own
- 6Still yours months later
What you can do
Learn from anything
Paste a YouTube link, a web link or a text, or add a PDF, a Word file or a photo. Read it with a translation, type what you hear, say it back, or retell it in your own words. Up next keeps the next video close.
Talk with Dicta
A short conversation on a topic you choose, at your level, with your new words planned in. Help is one tap away when a word will not come.
Ask Dicta
The box on the first screen is also your guide. Ask “What should I learn now?” and the answer comes from your own practice.
Check your pronunciation
Say anything, a sentence or two, and see a score under every word.
Flashcards that come back
Every saved word returns with its sentence, at the right time, until you know it without thinking.
One report
Your level in each skill, what is holding you back, and the one thing to do next.
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How it differs
| A fixed-library dictation or shadowing site | A flashcard app | DictaBooth | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Content | Its own clips | Prompts it writes | Any YouTube video, story, text, file or link you choose |
| Remembers what you met | Rarely | The cards you make | Every word you save, with its sentence, on six levels |
| Dictation | Sometimes | Rarely | Word by word, with the answer marked |
| Active production | Repeat and compare | Limited | Retell in your own words, and talk with Dicta |
| Pronunciation | Basic | Limited | Speech scoring: sounds, word by word |
| Cost and sign-up | Often a subscription | Often a subscription | Free, no account |
A general picture of the kinds of tool, not a review of any one product.
Trust
Automatic captions go wrong on fast speech, so transcripts are corrected against the audio before you practice, and each video says where its words came from (the science). Nothing needs an account (connecting devices only shares your progress between them): your progress stays on your device, and there are no ads, analytics or trackers (privacy). Questions are answered in the FAQ, and the tools we build on are named in the credits.
Teachers and creators
Language teachers and YouTube creators can ask us to check a video's transcript, free. Automatic captions often go wrong on fast speech, names and technical terms; we correct them against the audio. There is no form: you write to us, we write back.
Language teachers
- Hours back. A checked transcript instead of typing one out.
- Ready for class. Text for a gap-fill, a dictation or a word list.
- Practice that follows. Students paste the same video into DictaBooth, no account needed.
YouTube creators
- Captions you can trust. A corrected transcript as SRT or VTT to upload.
- Reach learners. People studying your language can practice your video word by word.
- Your content, your say. We work from your link and do not republish the video.
- Send the link. The video, its language, the format you want (SRT, VTT or plain text) and what it is for.
- We check it. The transcript is read against the audio and corrected where it went wrong.
- You get the files. We aim to reply within two days.
We use your address and links only to answer you, and never add anyone to a mailing list.
Contact
- Questions, feedback and privacysupport@dictabooth.com