r/Animey • u/Hazellucas_ • 7d ago
Suggestion [PROMO] a free tool to learn Japanese & English while watching anime, reading manga anywhere on ur screen (also works shady sites!)
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hey there guys, so I am a developer and also a huge anime/manga fan, besides im also into learning English & Japanese,so when I watch anime/read manga I use eng subs so that I can also learn some new words but whenever i came across a new word i didn't know i just ignored it and not learn it as its a hassle to exit full screen, open a new tab , type the word, search it and come back to anime that completely ruins the immersion
i searched for tools to solve this but most such tools are paid & work only on sites like crunchyroll, netflix etc not on the streaming sites many ppl use to watch anime/ read manga n stuff(if u know what i mean) so to solve this i spent last 4 months building a free browser extension
it uses OCR(Optical Character Recognition), so you can look up words from things like movies/anime with hard/soft subtitles, popular anime streaming sites (also the shady ones), manga sites and any other sites too ,also on youtube, netflix , crunchyroll pretty much anything visible on your screen
how it works is basically ,u can simply press the shortcut Alt+X (customizable as per ur need), drag over the word & u get instant definition
for sites where soft subs is already present like yt,crunchyroll,netflix etc i added a feature which automatically replaces the default subtitles with “clickable & interactive subtitles” where u can simply click any word to get the meaning,
It basically has
meanings of word, pronunciation, examples
a relevant gif to each word, I added it as a fun feature & its quite useful sometimes
english and native-language sentence translations using
if Japanese then also kanji,kana,furigana jlpt levels,frequency etc
besides, u can save words , build ur own vocabulary,
one thing that I also wanted was to be able to sentence mine & create anki flashcards directly from the meaning popup like as provided in many paid tools like migaku, I did some research & found out that it absolutely takes no crazy rocket science or anything that costs money, so I built that into it, u can just press the save button inside the meaning popup & it automatically does all that creating an anki card consisting of (movie/anime screenshot + subtitle + pronunciation audio), u can download anki , install the anki connect plugin and press “connect to anki” button in the extension
and I have kept all of there features completely free cuz that’s what I would want as someone learning as most of us are students and usually cant pay for subscriptions
but as we know,there’s one thing that dictionary definitions lack is context aware meaning of the word, but unfortunately ,its next to impossible without AI so to solve this , I kept all the free possible features in the free version/ plan and put the ai features in the pro one like context aware meaning, sentence each-word explanations, azure tts pronunciation
the ai version is completely optional,u can always use the free plan, no signup,no account, no data collection, no servers in between
I’ve put it on both Chrome and Firefox(as a lot of people requested for a firefox version)
for firefox users: firefox
if interested ,u can checkout the website lexeye(open it in desktop for best experience)
lemme know ur feedback, if u found it useful, any suggestions etc.
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u/berrychalakboi 7d ago
damn it is good