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alaanor | 2 years ago
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.
godelski|2 years ago
I'd probably focus less on the content recommendation. But I'm not seeing the big utility as specifically a language learning app. Unless it is purely about language learning content, not just youtube and netflix videos.
For ML, as an ML person I'm glad to hear you say this. I hate when it's hamfisted into bullshit things. The ideas you have seem good though but most are probably handled better by other products which you could integrate. But I am not aware of a good product that helps with pronunciation (at least to any passable degree), though I am aware of ones that do this for singing. I'd see this as a killer feature but it'll cost you some compute to get there.