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Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Show HN: Ricotta – Language Learning to Replace Anki

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Post by williamsss »

I’ve been tinkering with Ricotta for about a year now and I'm happy to announce it’s ready to for others to use officially. Largely the time has been spent making the project a framework to spin up newer projects quickly which I can share details around if anyone is interested.

The app was born out of my frustration with Duolingo drilling me on words I knew. I moved on to creating custom Anki cards and found myself spending ages creating decks.

It’s free, uses spaced repetition under the hood, and focuses on helping you learn what you want to without a course structure.

I'd love to hear your thoughts or even feature requests: https://ricotta.affineur.io/

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Post by thinkingtoilet »

Creating Anki decks takes time, how does Ricotta speed up the process? Does it have built in decks? If I'm learning Hindi, why should I switch? Will it really have great Hindi pronunciation? Is my data being used for anything?

Congrats on the launch. The website and the product seem really slick and you should be proud. The above questions are my honest reaction to seeing your site.

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Post by mlyle »

Things the webpage should answer:

- If it's free, like you say here, that it's free.

- What languages does it work for?

- What's the process to start?

Things I'm curious about:

- Is this intended to be a business? How do we get surprised by this costing something or disappearing in the future?

- Can it work in the opposite direction, e.g. to help students that speak Chinese pick up targeted English vocabulary based on what they're working on?

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Post by michaelgolden44 »

I am a working to learn a second language right now, one of the elements I have encountered is that I don't like is the anki apps UI, and the variety of stylings of anki cards from deck to deck, and how audio plays (or doesn't) depending on the app (web, mac, ios). Lot's of little UX frustrations that push me away from using it myself constantly.

I see from your LinkedIn for the site that the application: "automatically generates personalized Anki decks. With integrated spaced repetition, automated word examples, and native audio, it lets you build efficient, focused lessons—no rigid courses required."

Based on the wording and having used the application briefly before the application crashed, I'm assuming this is some kind of LLM backend that generates the text data for the cards as well as the audio from a TTS model for each card?

Please correct me if I'm wrong on that, because I've personally worked to build something similar for personal use and would love to read more about your framework and what's going on under the hood.

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