Hacker News: tipofthehat

New comment by tipofthehat in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

tipofthehat — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:39:28 +0000

Hi Andrew, I've been trying to get a similar audio language support app hacked together in a podcast player format (I started with Anytime Player) using some of the same principles in your project (transcript generation, chunking, level & obscurity aware timestamped hints and translations).

I really think support for native content is the ideal way to learn for someone like me, especially with listening.

Thanks for posting and good luck.

New comment by tipofthehat in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

tipofthehat — Tue, 27 May 2025 18:58:30 +0000

Hi Alex, lovely work. I have just started working on a similar idea, to have level-aware language support in a podcast player (extending Anytime Player) to help the listener recognise words, phrases and meaning in native content.

I'm a non-techy person learning from scratch so it's slow going but as a language learner who selfishly wants more tools to support immersion learning if you want to support audio I think something podcast based would be super interesting.

New comment by tipofthehat in "I Built My Own Audio Player"

tipofthehat — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:09:34 +0000

Tangentially related: as a non-developer I have started trying to hack/extend Anytime Podcast player to become a light language learning app, for supporting using native level resources for intermediate learners.

The idea is to give me vocab, phrases and idioms with timed with a transcript to appear just before the audio, with some feedback on understanding and a simple learning model of users level, vocabulary, strengths and weaknesses etc

I've made a start using whisper and some simple Bayesian modelling but if anyone more technically gifted wants to steal my idea they're more than welcome... As it's going to take a while for little old me.