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24 alternatives to Learn Chinese with Live-Transcriptions of Radio Taiwan International

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Learn Chinese with Live-Transcriptions of Radio Taiwan International is a language learning tool that uses real-time transcriptions from Radio Taiwan International broadcasts to help users improve their Chinese.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Learn Chinese with Live-Transcriptions of Radio Taiwan International launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1IT

    Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes. It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web. Grades per-syllable pronunciation + tones with Viterbi forced alignment. Try it here: https://simedw.com/projects/ear/

    Jan 2026 · simedw.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2DS

    I've been working on a little side project that combines Duolingo-like listening comprehension exercises with real content . Every video is transcribed to get much better transcripts than the closed captions. I filter on high quality transcripts, and afterwards a LLM selects only plausible segments for the exercises. This seems to work well for quality control and seems to be reliable enough for these short exercises. Would love your thoughts!

    2025 · app.fluentsubs.com · its alternatives →

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    Fast voice-to-text on 92 languages

    2023 · lingvanex.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4MT
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    yuyin.io▲136

    Master Chinese pronunciation with AI-powered feedback

    2025 · yuyin.io · its alternatives →

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    Keysake▲253

    Learn English as you type Chinese

    Sep 2026 · keysake.ai · its alternatives →

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    Chinese dictionary and training tool with AI

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Production ASR for noisy multilingual audio

    Apr 2026 · microsoft.ai · its alternatives →

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    lwlnow▲167

    I’m thrilled to introduce lwlnow, a web app designed to assist language learners in enhancing their listening, vocabulary, and writing skills through dictation-based practice—a technique that is both versatile and impactful. Why we developed it: Most language apps focus on passive learning or game-like memorization techniques. However, true fluency emerges when you train your brain to understand native speech and respond accurately. Dictation stands out as one of the most effective yet underappreciated methods for skill-building: You listen to a native sentence. You type exactly what you…

    2025 · lwlnow.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, Just wanted to share a tool i've been working on to help with my own study routine. It’s a browser extension called Lingoku. The idea is simple: we spend hours browsing the web in English every day. This tool replaces some of the english words with Japanese vocabulary based on your japanese level (Similar to Toucan, but with a better user experience). It’s basically an attempt to make the "i+1" method actually passive, you understand the sentence because it's mostly english, but you pick up Japanese words naturally from the context. It uses an LLM in the backend to make sure the…

    Dec 2025 · lingoku.ai · its alternatives →

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    A realtime, live transcription and translation app that works locally using a browser. Built with Huggingface Transformer.js and Supabase Realtime. Realtime in-browser speech-to-text with OpenAI Whisper! Broadcast to subscribed clients with Supabase Realtime. Translate to 200 languages with Meta's NLLB-200! Demo & source code https://supabase.link/realtime-ai-yt Shoutout to @xenovacom for building Transformers.js and providing plenty of examples at https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers.js/en/index#example...

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Here is a tool I built initially for myself to help with my German and Greek language studies. It started as a hack for creating Anki cards from native language audio. It extracts the words, finds their base forms (lemmas) and groups the examples by the lemma. At some point I realised that I have a transcription with word level timestamps that opens a lot of other opportunities. So I added a mode to click the first and last word in the transcript and it starts looping with the right gap and repeat count. Another feature I use a lot is selecting an audio fragment, sending a predefined prompt…

    Jun 2026 · lingochunk.com · its alternatives →

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    Practice listening to numbers, phone numbers, and times in 26+ languages including Spanish, French, Japanese, and Chinese. Train with region-specific pronunciation, adjustable speed, and real-world number comprehension exercises.

    2017 · foreignnumbers.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! In trying to improve my Chinese skills, I built this tool that lets me write a mix of Chinese and English, then recommends a proper Chinese expression. This is super helpful when I want to write something in Chinese but I don't know all the vocab/grammar - I can enter my best effort and use English for the parts I don't know. Really, the fundamental benefit of the tool is that it encourages me to exercise the writing muscle, rather than defaulting to translating from English. My goal was to build something that is fast, relatively inexpensive, and not prone to misleading people.…

    2024 · unscrambler.dpw.me · its alternatives →

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    Built with Nuxt & MongoDB – a way to preserve language with personal audio, anecdotes and stories. Hope to make a version open source one day so others can preserve their native languages.

    2024 · nomenclature.ctang.art · its alternatives →

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    Break the English ↔ Japanese language barrier with a QR scan

    Jul 2026 · auraspeak.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m Pablo, I built this application to learn languages using podcasts: https://www.langturbo.com (No signup required) There are a lot of tools to learn languages, but most of them focus on beginners (understandably so, that’s where the money is) but not many exist that target intermediate or advanced learners. The ones that exist make you find content on your own and then import that into their apps, which can be tricky when you don’t know where to look. LangTurbo has a unique curated database of podcasts by language (some even have dialect labels) that you can browse by…

    2025 · langturbo.com · its alternatives →

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    Easing the pain of audio transcription

    2023 · transkrip.xyz · its alternatives →

  19. 19IB

    Hello Hacker News, When learning foreign languages, I made the most progress by speaking them throughout the day, every day. So I made a site where you can *speak* to an AI language teacher to practice both listening and speaking. # The product *What I have now:* * Multilingual speech recognition: You can ask a question in English and get an answer in your target language. * Feedback on your grammar. * Suggestions: See examples of what to say next to keep the conversation flowing. * Speed: Choose a lower speed for beginners or a faster one for advanced levels. * Translations: Click to see a…

    2023 · gliglish.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20LL

    Hi! I'm living as an expat in France and I had a hard time following the news. So I've been working on Fluentsubs that turns YouTube content into a language learning experience. YouTube videos up to 20 minutes can be transcribed and listened to. At the same time I made it easy to lookup certain words and automatically add spaced repetition cards using the given context. This means that you can also rehearse with a real voice and not with AI dubs. This works especially well for the somewhat smaller languages that have a small track on Duolingo, and now are desperately looking for content…

    2025 · fluentsubs.com · its alternatives →

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    The SOTA performance of simultaneous interpretation models

    2025 · seed.bytedance.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22AA
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    Create AI-generated transcripts in minutes.

    2021 · transcribeninja.com · its alternatives →

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    Scenario-based Chineselearning

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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