Reading app defines tapped words in French fiction
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OUR NOTEA one-minute Sotto app explainer: a reader taps the French word "belle-mère" in a Cinderella retelling and saves its definition, "stepmother, not beautiful mother," to their vocabulary; includes synthesized voice narration.
I built this language learning app a few weeks ago, Fable & Astra, and this what Opus 5.5 gave me:
Prompt:
Make a 1-minute educational video about https://readsotto.app/ with synthesized voice narration.
Claude Opus 5.5 (Extra)
https://x.com/1stnoel_/status/2097011379097960887?s=20THE PROMPT
One-minute explainer briefMake a 1-minute educational video about https://readsotto.app/ with synthesized voice narration.MAKE ONE LIKE THIS
Three steps, using what the creators in this index used.- 1 · Copy the prompt
Use the prompt above as your starting point, then change the subject and the style.
HOW OTHERS WROTE THEIRS → - 2 · Direct it like an editor
- Ask for one self-contained HTML file on a fixed 1920×1080 stage.
- Link this video as the reference for pacing and style.
- Send two or three rounds of specific notes.
- 3 · Render it to MP4
A short piece like this can be screen-recorded, or captured frame by frame for exact timing.
TURN AN HTML ANIMATION INTO AN MP4 →
The creator didn't name their tools. Most videos like this are HTML, canvas or SVG animation written by Claude and screen-recorded or rendered to MP4 — how that works.
Spent some of the weekend playing around with Fable and Astra and built Sotto: a language-learning app where you read a story, tap unfamiliar words, then talk about it with an AI tutor. Reading is free. For the tutor, bring an OpenAI key or subscribe. https://readsotto.app
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