Doctolingo · iOS · Pre-launch
Talk to your patients.
Not through an interpreter.
Spanish medical phrases, scored by AI, offline on your iPhone. Built for US-based clinicians who need to get through a focused intake before the interpreter line picks up.
The problem
About one in four US patients prefers to receive care in Spanish. Interpreter phones take minutes to connect, kill bedside flow, and are not always available on a busy floor. Consumer language apps teach you to order coffee, not to ask about the character of chest pain or the timing of a headache.
BoldVoice proved pronunciation coaching works. Canopy owns medical translation on the enterprise side but does not grade you. Nothing sits in the middle. Doctolingo does.
How it works
01
Pick a scenario
Chest pain, abdominal pain, or headache intake. About 150 phrases across the three, written for real bedside use.
02
Record and get scored
Azure Pronunciation Assessment grades you per phoneme. Apple SFSpeechRecognizer transcribes on-device. Word-level heatmap shows exactly what slipped.
03
Practice what you miss
Simplified Leitner spaced repetition promotes or demotes phrases across three boxes. A sparkline tracks your last 20 attempts per phrase.
What's in V1
Per-phoneme scoring
Azure Speech grades each sound, not just the sentence. You see which syllables the patient would actually miss.
Word-level heatmap
Green, yellow, red on every word in your attempt. No guessing what went wrong.
Side-by-side playback
Hear a native Spanish speaker, then your own recording, back to back.
Leitner spaced repetition
Three-box SRS. Correct attempts move a phrase up, misses push it back down.
Trend sparkline
Small chart per phrase showing your accuracy over the last 20 tries. Easy to see what is actually sticking.
Fully offline
About 200 native-speaker clips download on first launch. After that, no network required for audio or SRS.
Streak and daily goal
Five phrases a day by default. Adjust or ignore it. No notifications unless you turn them on.
Privacy by default
Recordings go to Azure for scoring and are not stored. Transcripts run on-device through Apple Speech.
On your phone
Scenario list, record view, settings.
Scenarios
Record
Settings
Who it's for
Med students
Rotating through VA, LA County, Harbor, or any clerkship with a Spanish-speaking panel. Drill the intake you will actually do tomorrow.
Residents
ED and primary care. Get through a focused HPI before the interpreter phone picks up.
Attendings
Five minutes before a shift to warm up the phrases you have not said out loud in a year.
FAQ
Is this a medical device?
No. Doctolingo is a language education tool. Always use a qualified medical interpreter for actual clinical care.
When does it launch?
TestFlight beta in 2026, then public App Store after QA. Join the waitlist to get a build as soon as slots open.
What about other languages?
V2 is Mandarin. Arabic, Vietnamese, and Tagalog are on the roadmap after that.
Is my audio sent anywhere?
Recordings go to Azure for pronunciation scoring only and are not stored. Transcripts run on-device via Apple's SFSpeechRecognizer.
Will there be an Android version?
Not in V1. iOS ships with the best on-device speech APIs, and the pronunciation pipeline leans on them heavily.
Get a TestFlight build
Drop an email and you'll get an invite as soon as the beta opens. No marketing, no list sharing. One email when a build is ready.
Join TestFlight waitlistDoctolingo is a language education tool. It is not a medical device and is not a substitute for qualified medical interpreter services in clinical settings. Clinicians remain responsible for ensuring adequate, accurate communication with patients under applicable institutional policy and law.