Lingocast
About

A language-learning app built around daily listening.

Lingocast is for immigrants, students, and professionals who want to improve their English through real-world listening — not textbooks, not flashcards.

Our mission

Lingocast is built for people who want to improve English through daily real-world listening. Instead of memorising isolated vocabulary, learners hear useful stories repeatedly in English and their native language. The goal is simple: understand more, remember faster, and feel more confident using English.

The core learning loop is:

  1. Choose an open-license source or add a private RSS feed.
  2. Listen to the story in English.
  3. Listen again in your native language.
  4. Repeat the stories that matter to you.
  5. Build vocabulary, listening confidence, and real-world comprehension over time.

Not just news — news as learning material

Lingocast uses news because news is fresh, practical, and connected to real life. We are not a news broadcaster and we are not trying to replace publishers. We preserve attribution, original links, and license information on every item. Our purpose is to help learners practise listening and comprehension using legally permitted content — and to give open-license publishers a new way to reach learners.

What we actually do

Every hour, our pipeline:

  1. Pulls fresh articles from openly-licensed publishers (Creative Commons BY / BY-SA, public-domain government sources) and approved source providers.
  2. Translates each article for the languages our learners are studying.
  3. Produces high-quality audio in English and each target language.
  4. Delivers it to the app with source attribution, original link, and license intact.

Our content model

Lingocast has two content paths:

  • Public Lingocast sources come only from open-license publishers (CC BY, CC BY-SA, public domain) or approved source providers whose terms explicitly allow reuse, translation, text-to-speech audio generation, and redistribution. Every public item displays the source name, original URL, author where available, license name, and license URL.
  • Private user RSS feeds are processed only for the logged-in user who submitted them and are not published, shared, or added to Lingocast's public catalogue.

Publishers, nonprofits, government agencies, and Creative Commons organisations are welcome to submit their feeds as approved sources. Learn more about source-provider partnerships.

What we don't do

  • We don't process public content from publishers whose licence forbids translation, audio derivatives, or redistribution.
  • We don't strip attribution. Every public audio item names its source and licence.
  • We don't sell user data. Read the privacy policy if you'd like to verify that for yourself.
  • We don't run ads or third-party ad networks. The free tier is funded by the paid tier, full stop.

Who's behind it

Lingocast is built and operated by IGEARS TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, a small team based in Hong Kong. We have a long background in language tools and audio infrastructure.

Want to talk?

Pricing for schools, source-provider partnerships, feed suggestions, or takedown requests — all welcome. Get in touch.