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Re: Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words

#11

It doesn't really check that word really exist, and instead it hallucinates slop definition, usage examples and memory tip.

Putting in made-up words leads to some rather amusing results, though.

Fortunately I can't paste any here because they block text selection...

Looks like they cache the results globally, so here are my favourite non-words it's defined so far: extranguate, volupinous

Re: Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words

#12

Interesting concept. But you might want to ditch the pronunciation audio. At least for Welsh and Spanish, the pronunciation audio is pretty far from the mark. I would guess that is the same for many other languages.

Two German sentences are good. It picks a regional variant and sticks with it

Putting a whole sentence in the search field makes it just echo the input back to you. If you then ask it to pronounce that, it does it in English but with a strong accent (Turkish maybe, hard to say) :D

Edit: ok I tried some more in Dutch and it's hit and miss even within one language. Indeed not ready for language learning... better just read IPA or visit a site that has a traditional pronouncer or even human recordings (e.g. dict.cc for German, Wiktionary for various languages, Merriam Webster for English, etc.)

Re: Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words

#14
I made a popup dictionary for myself when I was learning Japanese. The thing that made me actually use it was that it works on selected text in any app, one hotkey, right where I'm reading. Every time lookup meant switching to a browser and typing the word in, I stopped bothering after a few days. So I'd worry less about the entries themselves and more about how fast someone can get from "unknown word in front of me" to the definition.
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