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Credits and licenses

Other people's work that DictaBooth shows you or relies on, and the terms it is shown under.

Dictionaries

Word meanings come from one of two dictionaries, depending on the language. Whichever answered is named and linked on the definition card itself, so the credit sits with the meaning rather than only at the bottom of a page.

Wiktionary
Definitions for most languages, from the English Wiktionary.
Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC-CEDICT
Chinese to English, with pinyin, which is what lets a click on one character answer for the whole word.
Used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Example sentences

When you add a word by hand, the example sentences offered come from Tatoeba, a collection of sentences written and translated by volunteers.

Tatoeba
Sentences with English translations, for most languages.
Used under CC BY 2.0 FR.

When Wiktionary has no entry for a word, usually a long German compound, the meaning shown is a machine translation from MyMemory, and the card says so.

Words you save carry the same credit into the file when you export them, so it travels with the meanings rather than staying behind on the site.

Word frequency

How common a German word is, which the report uses to estimate the level of a video and of your vocabulary, comes from a list counted over film and TV subtitles.

FrequencyWords
Word frequency lists by Hermit Dave, from OpenSubtitles (2018).
Used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Speech and language services

Some features hand a request to another company's service. What is sent, and when, is in the privacy policy; here is who they are.

Microsoft Azure Speech
Pronunciation assessment: the scores for sounds, rhythm and intonation when you shadow a line.
AI language and speech models
Used for Paraphrase, in different tools and layers: the guide map of a part, the check of your version against the ideas and the grammar, and your voice turned into text.
Your device's own voice
Reads Easy and Medium stories and the word speakers aloud, through your browser's speech synthesis. Nothing is sent for that.

Stories

The videos, titles and pictures on the story cards belong to the channels that made them. Hard plays the video itself in YouTube's own player; Easy and Medium are machine rewrites of the video's transcript, for reading.

Type

Inter and Montserrat
Served by Google Fonts.
Both under the SIL Open Font License.

And YouTube

DictaBooth is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or connected to YouTube or Google in any way. "YouTube" is a trademark of Google LLC.

Videos play through YouTube's own embedded player. Nothing is re-hosted here and nothing is sold: a video, its captions and its soundtrack belong to the people who made them, and DictaBooth claims no rights in any of it. It practices on a video you chose and can already watch, one sentence at a time, and it leaves when you do.

We respect and follow YouTube's terms and regulations, and we take creators' rights seriously. If you made a video and would rather it were not used this way, or you believe something here infringes your rights, tell us and we will act on it.