Our product
Kirtis
Free Lithuanian word-stress tool: type a word to see its stressed forms with part of speech, gender, number and case. Online since 2015, with an iOS app since 2016; accentuation by the VDU Centre of Computational Linguistics.
- Years
- 2015 – present
- Platforms
- Web · iOS
Task
In Lithuanian the stress moves with the grammatical form, and looking it up in a dictionary is slow, especially on a phone. Kirtis answers in one step: type a word and see every stressed form with its grammar.
Solution
- Stressed forms with part of speech, gender, number and case
- Suggestions as you type from a dictionary of stressed words
- Glossary of grammar abbreviations
- Cached answers, including for words that do not exist
- iOS app since 2016
Facts
- App Store rating
- 4.4 ★ (16 ratings)
- Online since
- 2015
- Accentuation
- VDU Centre of Computational Linguistics
Technology
The web app is AngularJS on a Node.js API with Redis and MongoDB; the accentuation itself comes from the Vytautas Magnus University Centre of Computational Linguistics. Redis also keeps the type-ahead dictionary and usage statistics.
- AngularJS
- Node.js
- Redis
- iOS