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Find a podcast by telling a bot what you want

No filters to set, no catalogue to scroll. Type a sentence in Telegram and get back something at your level, with a transcript attached.

Where
Telegram
Account
Needed to save and review
Languages
English, French, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Chinese
Price
Free
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Choosing what to listen to is its own small task, and it is the one that quietly ends most listening habits. You open a library, see thousands of shows, cannot tell which of them you will understand, and close it again.

The bot removes the choosing. You write what you are in the mood for and it answers with something specific: a show, an episode, a level, and a reason it picked that one.

You can just type

There is no query syntax. Anything you would say to a person works, and the bot tells you how it read your message before it answers, so you can correct it.

  • A show you already know by name — you get that show, with an episode ready to play.
  • A topic like history, news, comedy or science — you get shows about it.
  • A level like A2 or B1 — you get what is worth listening to at that level.
  • A length — say you have twenty minutes and you get episodes that fit.
  • An idea nobody named a show after — the bot searches inside what the episodes actually say and finds the ones that talk about it.

That last one is the interesting one

If no show is called what you typed, the bot does not give up and return nothing. It searches the transcripts themselves, across languages, and comes back with episodes that discuss the subject — then says so, so you know why the results look different.

Nothing is filtered until you say so

The bot starts with no filters at all. If a result is not right you tap easier or harder on the suggestion itself, or open the filter panel and change language, level, topic or ordering one at a time. Every filter starts at Any, and Any means genuinely no filter — not a hidden default.

What happens when you tap an episode

  1. 1

    The player opens

    Audio and transcript together, the current line highlighted as it is spoken.

  2. 2

    Tap any word

    Meaning, pronunciation and its CEFR level, without pausing the episode.

  3. 3

    Save what is worth keeping

    Saved words become flashcards, and they come back for review on a schedule.

The bot learns from what people ask for

When enough people search for something the catalogue does not answer well, that phrase is recorded and mapped to what it should have returned. The mapping lives in the database, not in the code, so the search improves without waiting for a release.

Why two bots and not one

A bot that opens by asking which of nine things you want is a bot most people close. Each of these opens directly on its subject and assumes that is what you came for. If you want everything in one place, the original bot still has all of it.

No filters to set, no catalogue to scroll. Type a sentence in Telegram and get back something at your level, with a transcript attached.
Telegram → @flexilingo_podcast_bot → type what you want to hear.

Questions people ask

Do I need a FlexiLingo account?

Not to search and listen. You need one to save words, review them later, and keep your level so results stay tuned to you. Linking takes an email address and a six-digit code.

Which languages can I listen in?

The catalogue covers English and French, with more being added. The bot itself talks to you in English, French, Arabic, Persian, Hindi or Chinese — set it once and it stays.

What if it gets my question wrong?

It shows you how it read your message before answering. If that reading is wrong, change one word and ask again, or open the filter panel and set the part it got wrong by hand.

Is this a different product from the website?

No. It is the same catalogue, the same levels and the same saved words. The bot is one more way in, for people who live in Telegram and will not install anything.