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VocaFlare Clips APIReal speech, indexed by word

Short videos with a CEFR level, a timed transcript and the second where each word is spoken. The same index runs inside the VocaFlare app.

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Word to timestamp

Ask for a word, get back clips and the second it is spoken in each one. Seek straight to it.

Levelled, not raw

Every clip and every indexed word carries a CEFR level, so you can serve a beginner and an advanced learner from the same corpus.

Screened corpus

A curated channel list, automatic captions required, unsafe and low-speech clips dropped before anything reaches the index.

Metadata only

No video passes through us. You play each clip with the official embed, inside your own app.

Status ​

Version 1 is live at https://clips.vocaflare.com/v1. A trial key is self-serve. If a field is missing for your use case, say so now: the shape freezes as integrations land.

The corpus is growing daily. GET /corpus reports its current size and is the one endpoint that answers without a key.

In production ​

Every word page on vocaflare.com plays its clips through this API, over 8,600 of them. Open one, for example travel or accident, and the video under the example sentence is a GET /words/{word}/clips response rendered with the official embed. That page is the reference integration.

What it is ​

VocaFlare indexes short videos from a curated list of channels. For each clip we store the caption cues with their timings, and the catalogue words that appear in it with the second they are spoken. That index is the product.

The same index powers the Clips feed inside the VocaFlare app, so it is maintained because we use it, not because it is sold.

What it is not ​

  • Not a video host. Responses carry ids and URLs; playback is your embed, on the source platform.
  • Not a transcription service. Transcripts come from the platform's automatic captions.
  • Not a dictionary. Word meanings are returned as a convenience in seven languages, one short gloss each.