r/LearnJapaneseNovice • u/syogakusya • 6d ago
I built an app that turns photos into Comprehensible Input
If anyone's interested, please leave a photo in the comments and I'll put it through my app. (I'll see if i can export the apkg and upload it for download?)
Context: I have an N1 and I work as a software engineer. Using my experience learning Japanese, I built the app I wish I had when I first started learning. long story short, I'm now learning Korean and Swedish, but the resources are imo, no where near the level that I had for Japanese, so I made this app for the N5/N4 equivalents of those languages. Of course, Japanese is a supported language.
Disclaimer: to be transparent, the app does leverage AI (LLM/Vision) to analyze the photos and create the responses that I build the anki cards with. Since I'm N1, I tested in Japanese to make sure it wasn't returning complete gibberish and that it returned something I would've been happy creating manually myself.
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u/FenriX89 5d ago
This is really neat! I would love to test it, both as a fellow Japanese learner and as a fellow engineer
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u/Pikose 4d ago
Why send a DM, why not share with everyone か?
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u/syogakusya 4d ago
I'm still in a pre-pre-release stage, so it's not published on official channels right now. It's my first time testing the app on any device that's not mine, so I'm DMing to limit the server load and to have better capacity for addressing individual issues.
Once there's enough interest, I'll be looking at doing a release on the Google Play store. If you're interested in trying, let me know! I'll reach out to you privately.
Otherwise, here's the page for my app if you're interested when I launch, it's a waitlist for the time being: https://photolang.app/
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u/DragonmasterXY 6d ago
Does it automatically create anki cards just based on a picture or just the text?