Perroquet: Learning from movies with subtitles

[chinopinyin]

I have just found Perroquet http://perroquet.b219.org/en/index, a French program to help you learn from movies

This is the description they give: "The principe of Perroquet is to use a video or audio file and the associated subtitles to make you listen and understand the dialogue or lyrics. After having idendified the files to use, Perroquet will read a piece of video then pause. It will show you the number of words to find and you will have to type them to continue. You can listen a sequence as many times as necessary."

Looks promising. Has anybody used it?

[renzhe]

We were true visionaries: http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/24097-tv-series-recommendations-and-index-thread/ Recently, there have been several commercial and free tools for learning from TV shows and subtitles.

Unfortunately, most Chinese TV shows you can download have hardsubs (and can't be used with this program), but at least you can get movies with subtitles. I don't know if Perroquet knows how to segment Chinese words (important!) and accept Chinese input, or deal with different encodings. I think that the quiz nature of the program might make it too slow to get sufficient listening exposure, but it might be useful as an occasional test of listening comprehension.