Context-Aware Explanations (Smart Definitions V2)

June 27, 2023

It’s been 3 months since I added Context-Aware Explanations (previously known as Smart Definitions) to Readlang. I’ve had great feedback about this feature so far! Here’s a small sample:

“I’m really loving the new feature Smart definitions! It does a much better job than dictionaries because there’s a lot of things dictionaries can’t translate well, and Smart definitions uses context and explains it in a comprehensible way.”
“I just wanted to say that I’ve really come to love the AI “define” feature you’ve added! Especially since it defines the word in the language one is learning. I honestly didn’t think I’d use it much at first, but I’ve found it very useful especially for when a word’s meaning in context isn’t obvious from the translation alone.”
“I was pleasantly astonished one day, while reading a book in German, to see an AI-definition pop up. I particularly appreciate the quality of the AI-generated definitions/translations. Of course, it’s not at all infallible, but it still feels, at times, like you’re in a conversation with a native speaker about a given word or phrase.”
“I have been using the AI and love it. I really like the way it delves further into the meaning of sentences. Wow! mind blown! I feel it’s like having a tutor by your side.”

You can access it from the reader page by opening the sidebar in a supported language. Here’s how it looks:

Context Aware Explaination

At first this was only available for premium subscribers, but now even free users get access to 10 of these explanations per day. It’s also available in more languages. Here’s the full list of supported languages:

Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Icelandic
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latin
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish
Ukrainian

For most of these languages, I’m not in a position to judge the accuracy of the explanations. If you have any feedback, please let me know!