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Merry Christmas to everyone.

I built something similar [1]

It's basically a podcast player where you can browse a database of podcasts filtered by spoken language, and listen with transcriptions and translations.

For each language I made a podcast to learn the most frequent words.

You can also get audible feedback on your pronunciation.

I am in the process of building a YouTube database of channels by spoken language to play youtube videos on the app.

> Every month or every N hours of reading/listening, you take a new test to recalibrate your proficiency level.

I slightly disagree with this part, I think the moment you add some sort of "test" or drills it can become tedious or dreadful to learn in the long term.

[1] https://www.langturbo.com

I'm looking for simple k8s alternatives like docker swarm and kamal. Rove looks really interesting.

I started a software Youtube channel 2 days ago [1], so I went down the rabbit hole of finding the best tools, best way to record, etc.

I first thought of using a presentation tool like keynote, but it can be limiting if you want to make more complex content, like showing browser tabs, drawing diagrams, etc.

If your content is more technical, I think is best to just record your screen and show the command line or editor. Most people use OBS to record the screen and show your face at the same time. You can explain things with a diagram tool like excalidraw. Theprimeagen and "Theo - t3․gg" work that way, they first make a live stream, then edit that stream into a Youtube video.

> where can I find royalty free music and clips

If your content is more "infotainment" like Fireship, he explains his way of making videos here [2] and this video also goes into his process more [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_WM0lJU6GY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6-Q2dgodLs

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRoSBWYMefY

Nice. I assume this was inspired by Pocketbase (Golang): https://pocketbase.io/

Surprised none mentioned OpenAuth yet, how does this compares?

https://openauth.js.org/

Hi, congrats on your launch.

Note that to show your work you should change your title to "Show HN: xxxx" and follow these rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

The main reason I'm using Supabase is due to their support of the pgroonga extension out of the box.

Does Gel support multilingual full text search?

Looks really nice congrats, I built something similar but for podcasts [0]

I see you are using yt-dlp for YouTube, my app originally also played YouTube videos scraped with yt-dlp, but I found that it is very hard to get YouTube audio "at scale" even when rotating IP, using proxies, etc. You will eventually get blocked, so I dropped the whole thing and focused on podcasts.

But with your app the user runs it locally so that shouldn't be a problem. Good luck.

[0] https://www.langturbo.com

I'm building a podcast player to learn languages.

https://www.langturbo.com (No signup required)

Sure, you can email me at contact at langturbo dot com, or you can post the podcast names here as a comment.

Thanks for reporting this, I updated the marquee.

I will take note of your feedback, thanks.

Thanks for the feedback. I can see that there is "Radio Ambulante" podcast from NPR, is it that one?

I see that the search function is a little bit buggy, if you copy paste "Radio Ambulante" in the search bar you should see it.

Are you using the app on Android web?

Currently you cannot navigate await from the screen that says "Waiting for your link click", so you will need to open the email in a different app than your browser, or in a different tab.

Sorry about the trouble, I will make this more clear in the UI. If you want you can email me at contact at langturbo dot com and I can look into it.

Thanks for the feedback.

Note that you track your progress seeing the minutes played and the words marked as known when you click on the button on the top right in the "Profile" tab.

Is the signup not working for you?

I don't have a mailing list at the moment, but I will create one and send product updates to the people that have accounts, so if you create an account with your email I will send updates that way.

Thanks, I will look into that.

Thanks. Currently the free plan has a limit on the amount of monthly playback minutes, you can upgrade with a subscription. No plans to add ads.

No problem, this is the type of feedback I'm looking for. Thanks, I will take note of your suggestions.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm planning to add better voices for the Pimsleur mode.

At the moment it is only English, but adding more languages to translations/definitions is on my plans.

Makes sense, thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for the feedback, I can add a setting option to change that.

Thanks, yes it's using Whisper large v3

Hey I fixed this if you want to test it again, you can reload the podcast feed and the audio will be in French.

I get it now, I see the audio is in Japanese, thanks for finding this out, I will look into it.

Sorry about that, if you're on the web app, can you tell me what browser and OS are you using?

Hey apologies it went poorly, If I understand correctly, you went to the "LangTurbo French" podcast, to the "bonnes" episode and you want the translation of that French audio to be in Japanese instead of English? Sorry if I misunderstood you.

Thanks. Both Mandarin and Cantonese are shown under "Chinese". I'm working on improving the classification, so that each podcast's language is shown more accurately.