YouTongue — Hear Any Word

Select an English word on any page and hear it spoken in real YouTube clips — natural speech, not a robot voice.

Met a word you've only ever read? Hear how real people actually say it. YouTongue finds moments in YouTube videos where your word or phrase is spoken in natural speech — speeches, briefings, parliamentary debates, science talks — and plays them right where you are reading. Not a text-to-speech voice: real accents, real tempo, real intonation. HOW IT WORKS • Select a word or a phrase (up to 100 characters) on any web page. • Right-click → "Hear “…” on YouTongue", or press Alt+Shift+Y (Option+Shift+Y on Mac). • A small card opens next to the text with clips cued to the moment it is said. Select another word — the card switches without reloading. • Pick an accent — American, British, Australian or New Zealand — right in the card. Your choice is remembered. • Close it with Esc, the × button, or a click anywhere else. • Optional: a "Hear" button right at your selection. LEARN FROM WHAT YOU WATCH • Play a video with English subtitles — on Netflix, YouTube and other sites. The YouTongue icon shows EN; click it and every line of the video opens in a side panel next to it. • The line being said is highlighted and stays in view. Click a time to jump back, or search the whole episode for a word. • Tap any word, or a phrase, in the transcript: the video pauses and you hear it said by real people in YouTube clips. Replay the line, save the word to a folder, then play on. • The Hear button and the subtitles panel are off until you turn them on — one click on the welcome page or in the toolbar popup. • Signed in, save words to folders and add a note to a word — a translation or how it sounds — and see it wherever you meet the word again. • With Pro, the card also shows what the word means: part of speech, a guideword, the CEFR level (A1–C2) and an example. Every meaning of the word is one click away on youtongue.me. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Out of the box the extension does nothing until you ask it to, and then only on the current tab. The Hear button and the subtitles panel need Chrome's permission to run on the pages you open — asked once, when you turn them on. • Subtitles are read inside your browser and are never uploaded. • Signed out, only the word you look up is sent to youtongue.me to search for clips. • Signing in is optional. It keeps a history and folders of your words: then the page address, title and the sentence around the word go to your library. Delete any of it, or the whole account, at any time. • No tracking and no ads in the extension. Clips are played with the official YouTube player.