Show HN: Kimchi Reader – Immersive Korean Learning with a Popup Dictionary

But, I would like to see some more about what it offers. Right now it looks like it is a video caption replacer with a dictionary. There are free tools like that that exist. Anki is a plugin and not built in, why? What about those starting learning? Do you have lessons or small references?

What's your plan for ML? Honestly, the largest benefit I see is for pronunciation feedback. This is a thing a lot of apps get wrong, because it is important to learn how to pronounce things from the beginning. This usually isn't as big of a problem for someone learning English but tones are a bit more important in Korean though not as much as say Chinese (this is part of why it's typically easier to understand someone in English with a very heavy accent than understanding Chinese with a very heavy accent). But a self learner is going to have an incredibly difficult time getting verbal feedback while a native or more traditional learner has this feature built in because there's another person there to give them feedback.

Yes there are free tools that does the same job (I have noted that on the description of the post). The main difference is that Kimchi is capable of recognizing words correctly (ofc not 100%, but better than other tools. If you think there are better tools out there, I would love to see it!).

As for Anki, I don't want to rebuild a whole SRS on my side if that what you were thinking. I think Anki is an awesome software and does its job extremely well. So using it instead of recreating the wheel sound much more interesting.

For the content, I don't have anything right now indeed. I would love to build a customized content recommendation later matching with the knowledge you marked in Kimchi. But I don't plan producing material myself and I don't think I have level to do so anyway.

And finally for ML. I think I should use it where it make the most sense. I definitively want to use it! But I also don't want to use for the sake of using it. I wanted the foundation to be without, then ML can always be slapped on top of it. As you said, there's plenty of scenario where I could use it, be pronunciation, ocr for webtoon, translation with context for when you understand each word and grammar but still don't get the sentence, whisper, tts for making audiobook on the fly, etc.

What I would dream about is the ability to read Manwha with it. That's probably a bit hard as the text is inside images, but maybe with some image recognition it might be possible...?