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Do you have a few samples that can be read without registering?

Does it highlight the matching words?

If you go down on the main page, you will see an example of Spanish to English.

And, we don’t have language alignment yet. Still, it highlights some of the “hard” words.

You'll probably want to show examples in all the languages you target. I wanted to see how good the Vietnamese is for my kids but signing up (especially on mobile) just to see if the tool is even useful is enough friction that I didn't bother.

Sad to hear. We will think about a solution for this. But, honestly I don’t know anyone who knows Vietnamese, so it would be such a useful feedback. That’s what the internet is for… grilling random people on the internet :)

I tried at the top and never scrolled down.

Some comments about the example:

It's weird that the Spanish version is complete and the English version appears sentence by sentence. I'd prefer o see both.

Highlighting by sentence is fine. Matching word would be better, but I can imagine it's a nightmare to implement.

Why does it read aloud only the Spanish version? I'd like to hear any of them with a click.

You can change the settings for showing the translation and auto-play.

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