ChineseShadowing

Practice Chinese shadowing (Putonghua or Taiwan Mandarin) with any text you like. Both Pinyin and Zhuyin (Bopomofo) are supported: show either one or both, added automatically and fully offline. PASTE ANY TEXT, GET ZHUYIN AND PINYIN • Paste or scan Chinese text (Traditional or Simplified) and every character is annotated with Zhuyin and Pinyin from the built-in dictionary. No account, no network needed. • Scan printed text with the camera (experimental). • Share text from any app straight into ChineseShadowing to add it in one tap. • Drag over characters to select them and look up their meaning. SHADOWING TOOLS • Sentence Repeat Drill, Listen & Pause, or Continuous Playback at 0.5x to 1.5x speed. • Voice playback with your device's text-to-speech. A Chinese voice is picked automatically (Taiwan zh-TW is preferred when available). • Display modes: Characters + Phonetics, Characters only, Phonetics only, or Blind (listening only). Show Zhuyin, Pinyin, or both. • Bookmark the sentences you want to revisit and track your progress. RECORD AND COMPARE • Record your own voice sentence by sentence and compare it with the model audio. • Optional AI scoring: add your own Gemini API key to get pronunciation and tone feedback for each word. Recordings go straight from your device to Google's Gemini API; the developer never receives them. • Choose the Taiwan Mandarin (Guoyu) or Mainland China (Putonghua) standard. It sets the reference for AI scoring, the hints for AI photo re-reading, the default voice, and the Taiwan-standard readings (e.g. 垃圾 lèsè, 期 qí) of your texts. Switching it updates your saved texts too. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your texts, bookmarks and recordings stay on your device. No sign-up. FREE AND PRO • Free: all core features, up to 50 sentences in total, with a small ad banner. • Pro (one-time purchase, no subscription): no ads, unlimited texts, and full backup/restore of your text list. Available in English, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, Thai and Vietnamese.

Better readings: many more polyphonic words are now read correctly in context, and the Taiwan standard has far more Taiwan-specific readings. New: share text from any app straight into ChineseShadowing. Switching between the Taiwan and Mainland standards now also updates your saved texts. Also fixed the AI score display and an issue where a previous result could appear on the next sentence.