Incredibly underrated app!
Just keeps crashing
Response from developer
Please get in touch with our support team. We should be able to help. Email: support@glisten.ist
Okay just fir podcasts alone but the rest doesn’t work well
At the moment, I don’t think this app alone is really worth it unfortunately. If I want to listen to foreign podcasts, I can just use normal podcast platforms. And if I want audio with high quality transcripts and translations, I would use a normal language learning app or website that I can be sure is accurate. I think this app is relying on AI too much when the technology just isn’t there to give quality results.
Response from developer
Sorry you have experienced some issues with Korean. We recently improved the extraction of Asian languages. By default, Glisten uses Apple’s built-in dictation tools, but if you go to the settings and choose Whisper, it should work a lot better for Korean. The first time you use it, it will have to download a large model file, but after that it should be fast and much more accurate. We’ll see what we can do in future regarding selecting individual words. One advantage of using the translation of the whole sentence is that the context is correct. Many words are ambiguous if they are in isolation, but in a sentence take on a certain meaning. But I fully agree it would be good to have both.
Extraordinary Language Learning Tool
Response from developer
Thank you for the support!
Useful tool
Response from developer
I really like the analogy of gearing down. It's a great way to describe what Glisten does. I also like to think of it is Augmented Audio. Augmented Reality is generally about what you see, where Augmented Audio is the same thing, but for listening. The device changes the audio in various ways, and can insert content, to make it more understandable.
