pretty practical if your study habit starts with files you already have, not streaming tabs. the tradeoff is obvious though: good subtitle timing and easy sentence mining matter a lot more when the transcript is actually dependable.
SubSmith
Immersive language learning platform using your own videos.
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SubSmith is a language learning software that generates accurate transcripts for any video or audio file, provides instant word definitions via hover, and allows exporting flashcards to Anki. It supports over 99 languages and helps learners study vocabulary in context using their own media files.
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Show HN78 source points · 51 comments
Cool idea! While I'm not so sure about learning a language with content from fictional sources, that should at least make it more relevant for the learners. And you can use it on podcasts too, where people talk normally. The biggest hurdle is probably that users need to get hold of the media so they can use it as input.
k__ · Imported from Show HN
I love having auto-generated subtitles available, but I am still skeptical that we can call them "accurate" yet. For many languages the models are quite weak, and even for English and German on YouTube I see errors all the time.
adamddev1 · Imported from Show HN
I'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, and some of them are all in one
posh_somme · Imported from Show HN
I 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.
cybertim · Imported from Show HN
In the age of LLMs, AI assisted programing and vibe coding can't this all be replicated? I'm confused why is this a yearly subscription or paid at all? This tool might as well be open source to be brutally honest.
colesantiago · Imported from Show HN