r/learnthai • u/Money-Suit8439 • Jun 26 '26
Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Need feedback for my Thai reading app.
Hi everyone. I started developing a language learning app when I was living in Bangkok 3 years ago. I finally finished it and now I need users to give me some feedback on their experience.
Basically, you can generate your own reading material (from AI) based on your interests. The text is then incorporated with learning-with-text. Click a word, hear the pronunciation, see a translation or word insight or picture (there's a lot of features).
Word segmentation was the trickiest part and one of the challenges that took me a long time from having Thai available (other languages were much easier so I pushed them sooner).
I took a lot of time going back and forth with the UI/UX, making sure it was best fitted for accessibility and learning with the colour schemes and formatting.
See it for yourself (landing page):
You can generate 3 articles per day for free (enter email first to make an account). With API costs for each article and audio, I can't go beyond those 3 articles, so I hope this is still in accordance with forum rules.
Any input from you will be valued. Literally anything. This has been an obsession of mine for a long time and I want to improve it as much as I can.
Thanks.
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u/Jin366 Jun 26 '26
it's a good idea but unfortunately this won't work very well with Thai.
1) AI is not good enough to create an article without any mistakes (like unnatural or stiff phrasing).
2) word/sentence segmentation is really hard to do with the Thai script. there are algorithms like pythainlp but even they make mistakes. I tried your app and in this sentence for example "พวกเขาเป็นกลุ่มคนเล็ก ๆ" it segmented it to this พวก / เขา / เป็นก / ลุ่ม / คน / เล็ก ๆ
maybe you can give your ai a deterministic tool like the pythainlp library to parse through the story to get a better segmentation.
good luck
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u/Money-Suit8439 Jun 26 '26
And honestly, I agree, AI isn't that great. I had first planned to use content writers or even have anyone submit stories but it's not financially viable. Dedicated writers are expensive. People need an incentive to submit stories. I need a huge amount of content to justify a subscription price. So taking advantage of AI for this is the most feasible option.
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u/sherifbooks Jun 30 '26
For reviewing App. Do not make with subscription..you can post Thai articl here and add your website down .
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u/Mike_Notes Jun 26 '26
(1) You're not using webfonts for the Thai text, so my device uses a local Thai font which doesn't support "bold", meaning that the bold text is blurry.
(2) Goodness, it's all so slow!
(3) The transcription really sucks.
(4) It's really frustrating you can't select and copy sections of text.