OTO Navi is an app for listening to audio material provided with books published by The Japan Times Publishing, Ltd. Before, this material was available only through supplementary CDs or MP3 file downloads, but now OTO Navi lets you use your smartphone or tablet to listen to it anywhere, anytime! ●How to use OTO Navi● It’s three easy steps: 1. Search for the book / 2. Download the audio material / 3. Play it! 1. Search for the book You can easily search the database for the target book by either entering a keyword (title, author, or ISBN) or scanning the bar code (or QR code) on the book you own. If searching by bar code, scan the upper bar code of the two printed on the book’s back cover. 2. Download the audio material You can download either the full set of audio material for the book, or just the sections you want. If downloading the full set, you may want to use a WiFi connection. 3. Play it! OTO Navi offers several handy playback features to aid your studies, including 3-second skipping back/forward and repeating of a single track, a single section, or all sections.
Great, but…
The audio quality is really great, pronunciations are clear, you can adjust speed and it doesn’t sound distorted. They did a great job there. However, when you add a single track/lesson to favorites, the entire book gets added. I’m hoping this is just a bug that will get fixed but if it’s intentional, it kind of defeats the purpose of having a favorites list unless you’re going to offer favorite books AND a separate favorite track list.
Can’t find the audio
This app literally gives you instructions of where to download the audio when I can’t even find that option.
Doesn’t recognize quartet book
It just gives an error when scanning the code.
It works and it’s free
I’m currently about halfway through the Genki Vol. 1 textbook (self-study) and so far I don’t have any real complaints about this app. I mean, it’s free and it works well enough. What more could you ask for?
App won’t let me download or veiw lessons for Genki volume 3
I recently purchased the third edition of Genki and it told me to install this app to listen to the audio for the lessons, however the app doesn’t let me download or veiw those lessons.
Help
Why can't I open it?
Perfect! Audio for Genki 2nd edition
It’s so convenient that The Japan Times has provided this app to students to download the audio for the Genki textbook and workbook. My laptop does not have a CD rom, so thankfully they have made this app, makes perfect sense. The player is well designed, allowing me to speed up or slow down the audio, and repeat audio by section. I have bought the Flashcards app that accompanies the Genki books, also produced by the same company. Overall, the company is doing a nice job of supporting its students. Thank you to The Japan Times and their developers.
Enabled audio to be controlled from a lock screen. Fixed a minor bug.
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