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Hello. Me and Ognjen made this, the main site is now: https://languagereactor.com/

Audio and subs usually don't match for dubbed audio tracks (it's usually ok if you watch a French movie with French subs etc.). I have code that processes the Netflix audio with Whisper ASR, it works very well. Hopefully Netflix don't mind us adding this (my email is in my profile), I think we'll bring this online in a couple of weeks. If any other video provider is interested in having Language Reactor support their site, mail me.

Also, we're rolling out a 'virtual conversation partner' starting today: https://forum.languagelearningwithnetflix.com/t/chat-feature...

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Prompted by this post I tried language reactor and have a few notes:

Can you really only sign in with google?

I tried the phrase thingy. I don’t get it. It asks me about a word and shows me a sentence and a translation of the sentence. What’s the point here? Shouldn’t the translation be hidden so I have a chance to translate it myself?

There’s a lot of buttons I can click and I don’t get what they do. Shouldn’t I just choose “I understood”, “I didn’t understand” and perhaps a “don’t show this one again”?

How do I report that a sentence doesn’t have the word that the app suggests I should learn?

How do I report typos in sentences?

>> Can you really only sign in with google?

We've been planning to change auth lib before enabling other login methods, haven't gotten around to it.

>> I tried the phrase thingy. I don’t get it.

Probably the best info is here, should improve situation: https://forum.languagelearningwithnetflix.com/t/update-learn...

>> How do I report that a sentence doesn’t have the word that the app suggests I should learn?

Some words are lemmatised in unexpected ways (el / se are the same lemma). Sometimes the lemmatisation is wrong, despite using sota libs. There's more work to do.

>> How do I report typos in sentences?

It's not implemented.. I'm not aware of the typo issue.

Useful feedback. The project is still a work-in-progress.

I tried it out for Chinese. Why does it only look up single characters instead of words, which are often composed of multiple characters? Also, some of the pronunciations are wrong. For example: 乾净 gan1jing4, 乾 showed up as qian2, which is wrong.

are you planning to migrate the virtual conversation partner to languagereactor.com? Confusing with the "Netflix" part

The forum runs on the old domain still, the chatbot is on the new page (languagereactor.com).

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