Yara Reads
A children's story reader where every tapped word breaks into its sounds
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It makes a whole book, rather than a graded lesson, the unit of practice, and the voice mode means that practice survives a commute or a walk.
An iPhone, iPad and Android app that pairs a foreign-language book with synced narration, so the text follows the voice or the voice carries on alone. Around 10,000 titles are included and you can load your own EPUB or FB2 files. Ask about a word, a sentence or a page by typing, or by speaking in Hands-Free mode. A sandwich mode plays a few sentences in the original, then in your language, then the original again; a level setting tunes hint frequency and reading speed. Downloaded books and audio work offline. Free to start, with Premium at $11.99 a month or $99.99 a year.
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