Changelog
What's new.
StreamTutor is in active beta. Here's what we've shipped.
Click a word, keep it, say it
v1.1.0A redesign around one moment: click a word you don't get, hear it explained in its line, and it's yours. Then hold Space and say the line yourself.
- Click any word on the subtitles and the show pauses: the word appears big, with its meaning and the line beneath it, and the teacher explains that word out loud, in the context of its line: what it means here, in plain words, and how it makes the line mean what it means.
- The word flies into ✦, your count of tonight's words, then the line replays in the film, now understood, with the word in gold. The show carries on.
- Two colours on the subtitles: white, and gold for the words you've clicked. A gold word stays gold wherever it comes back, in any show. Hover one for a reminder of what it means.
- Nothing interrupts the film on its own any more: it only pauses when you click a word or hold Space to say a line.
- Review cards, Anki-style: the word and its line on the front, its meaning and the teacher's explanation on the back, then Again or Got it. Cards come back spaced out over days, and with nothing due you can always run an extra round. Review in the player, or in a tab of its own without Netflix. Reviews don't use your daily explanations.
- A new sidebar: the share of this episode's words that are yours, the Review button, tonight's words, and all your words, with a row for each language you're learning.
- Sign in and your words, your review schedule and your episode progress sync to your account, so they follow you to any computer.
- Say it: hold Space on a line (or click Say it) and say it yourself. Each word you say lights up with its meaning above it, and when you say the whole line, the scene plays on. The lines you say count toward your night.
- Voice questions are gone: Space is now for saying the line yourself. To understand a word, click it. To ask your teacher something, reply to any of her emails.
- A simpler toolbar popup that shows where you are and what's next, a setup page when you install, and the extension in 9 languages, following the language you choose.
- Search finds any word or line you've met: hear it again, or jump back to its scene. It replaces the old lists of lines and words and the separate lessons page.
Public beta
v1.0.0The first version anyone can install. The teacher is real and it talks back.
- Live AI voice teacher: hold the spacebar on any line to ask a question out loud and get a spoken answer.
- Spoken explanations: at the moments that matter, the show pauses and a tutor breaks the line down, then resumes.
- Dual subtitles and a click-to-save dictionary, layered onto your own Netflix.
- Your lesson library, with jump-back to the exact scene where you learned a phrase.
- Pro plan with a 7-day free trial, with secure Stripe checkout.
- 30+ languages, led by Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Mandarin.
The teacher learns to speak
v0.9.0- Streaming teacher audio: answers start playing while they're still being generated, so there's no awkward wait.
- A cadence control: choose how often the teacher interrupts (off, rarely, sometimes, or often).
- Refined the in-Netflix overlay so explanations sit cleanly over the player.
- New gold-on-black look across the extension and site.
Accounts and sync
v0.5.0- Sign in to save your words and lessons and sync them across devices.
- Per-user data with row-level security, plus a shared cache so popular shows load fast.
- Hosted backend so the extension works out of the box, no setup required.
The first prototype
v0.1.0Where it started: an offline tool that cut a film into bite-size language lessons.
- The original "lesson-cut" experiment that proved the idea: explain the line, then keep watching.