During my English learning process, I often come across some slang expressions used in videos. Could this application handle them properly and mark them out?
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#42Been a pretty happy user of https://www.languagereactor.com Not seeing a reason to switch atm tbh
That’s fair enough! I am curious tho, are there any issues you face while using the app that could be handled better? Or any features that would make it easier to use? ASR in LR is down often from my experience.
I tried Language Reactor a couple of years ago and bounced off of it because of its absolutely atrocious support for traditional character Chinese. Its page literally says there is none on Netflix despite most their Chinese content being from Taiwan.
Migaku is flawed, but better. This tool seems like a much less polished version of Migaku or Lexirise with just a local media player and no ability to use it on YouTube, Netflix, Bilibili, etc.
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#43I've been learning Japanese for just over a year now, and its a community that might have the highest concentration of amazing free learning apps with sentence mining capabilities, many of which do things very similarly to what you're building. Have you tried some of these? asbplayer Manatan Yomine Anki Miner AnimeCards Nagare These are just for video, there are other similar solutions for games, manga and ebooks, an…
I've only heard of asbplayer and Anki miner before, the others I haven't. It's a great space tbh, people are building all the time. For me specifically it's about trying to serve all languages to the best of my ability, alot of the ones I've come across only focus on Japanese or a small selection of languages. Also I think there's scope to improve UX and reducing friction for non tech savvy people
Migaku is far from perfect, but it's fairly polished and supports a ton of languages. Honestly, I wish it just focused on a couple of languages and did them well instead of trying to support as many as possible, though.
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Same goes for Dropbox - you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CSV on the mounted filesystem.
I understand your jest, but you can really vibecode your own Dropbox in this day and age.
I'm pretty confident that Grok CLI 4.6 could one shot this.
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In my experience, apps for learning japanese is a hugely saturated niche because the venn diagram of people learning japanese and people who like building software is a circle
Yeah, all in one apps are now getting built every other week
I think it would be interesting to try this with another language though. Picking something like Russian or something obscure like Turkish could be a more undeserved segment
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same goes for Dropbox - you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CSV on the mounted filesystem.
I understand your jest, but you can really vibecode your own Dropbox in this day and age.
Yet most don’t. Because they don’t wanna spend time on it and they want a tested and proven software. Heck why even use Mac/linux/windows when you can just vibecode your own OS.
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#48does it support Spanish? what other languages does it support?
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#49I build the exact same system, but for (mandarin, simplified) Chinese which i'm learning. Wanted to create such a system for a while, but it's a lot of hooking up the correct libs and making a UI etc. never found the energy. Thanks to 'ai' I was able to do this finally, think more people needed this push :-) It's web-based and can be self-hosted in a docker.
Link please?
Re: Show HN: SubSmith – Turn your own videos into language-learning material
#50I build the exact same system, but for (mandarin, simplified) Chinese which i'm learning. Wanted to create such a system for a while, but it's a lot of hooking up the correct libs and making a UI etc. never found the energy. Thanks to 'ai' I was able to do this finally, think more people needed this push :-) It's web-based and can be self-hosted in a docker.
Care to share with a fellow learner? :)
i published it to github today, its still very alpha but it does the job https://github.com/enimatek-nl/shuoshuo