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News Owl
Today's news, read along sentence by sentence.
How to play
Press play and listen to today's news. Finish the whole briefing to earn a Spark — once a day.
The sentence being spoken lights up as you go. Tap any sentence to jump back and hear it again.
Try it: tap a sentence to replay it.
Each briefing is split into topic sections — tap the tabs to jump between them — and runs about 11 minutes. A brand new one arrives every morning, and you can pick any day from the past week.
Too fast? Tap 🐢 to slow the reading down, 🐰 to speed it up. Listening on the move? Tap 🔁 and lock your phone — it keeps playing.
A daily English listening workout built from real news. Press play and the day's briefing reads itself to you — Global & Politics, Business & Economy, Science & Tech, then Sports & Culture — while the sentence being spoken lights up on screen. Tap any sentence to hear it again. Slow it to 0.8x when a passage is hard, push to 1.2x once it's easy. Tap a highlighted word for a definition and save it to your wordbook. Turn on Repeat and it loops in the background for a commute, with lock-screen controls and the current headline on your phone's now-playing card. Missed a morning? Pick any day from the past week. Your place is kept per edition, so catching up on yesterday never loses where you were in today's. How to play: press Play and listen. Tap a sentence to replay it, or drag the bar to scrub. Finish the whole briefing to earn Sparks — once a day. Good for: English listening practice, ESL learners, shadowing, and anyone who would rather learn by ear than by quiz.
Controls
- Tap Play to start listening
- Tap any sentence to replay it
- Drag the bar to scrub
- Tap a highlighted word for its meaning
- Pick a past day from the date menu
