Vocabuo - The vocabulary app

Name: Vocabuo - The vocabulary app
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Learn language with AI, spaced-repetition flashcards

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Learn language with AI, spaced-repetition flashcards

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Learn foreign language vocabulary with spaced-repetition, AI powered flashcards. Learn words by their frequency in or use your favorite content - Youtube, web or text to add words. Automatically get flashcards with images, cloze sentences examples and audio.

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Hi Product hunt community! 👋 Are you learning Spanish 🇪🇸, German 🇩🇪 or English 🇬🇧? Read more! I'm Petr, the founder of Vocabuo - The vocabulary app. After trying almost all of the language learning apps on the market and not being satisfied with any of them, I've decided to lock myself in a room (nice co-working space in Prague 🇨🇿) and create one I'd be satisfied with. If you have tried Anki or any other spaced-repetition flashcard apps, you'll find yourself at home. The concept is very similar with one crucial difference: The cards are dynamic and automatically created for you! You can add words from collections, youtube videos, websites, search for the word in the app or just learn them by their frequencies in the language. Vocabuo will then create the cards for you with audio, image (DALLE-3, I'm not cheap 🥲) and sentences! I've also tried to address all of the issues I've had with other language learning apps: - Marking the words you already know is extremely fast and you can immediately skip to the level you're at. - You can add words independently of any course/level/deck. - Words are shown in sentences (cloze cards). Most other apps try to work with 1:1 translations, which often times do not exist and are context dependent. - There is no time wasted with gamification, XPs, levels etc. (Yes, that's a feature 😝) - The idea is to go through as many words as possible in a practice session - no time wasted. I got very frustrated with other apps, when I knew the answer and had to type it out, either on my phone keyboard, or worse case, randomly shuffled letters 😩 - Customizable - From the feedback that I'm getting, there does not seem to be the perfect SRS intervals settings or the perfect card type, so you can adjust it to your preference. There is still a lot more work to be done: I'd like to add voice input, make the algorithm a little smarter, add more languages etc., but the app is quite usable at this point. I myself improved my German vocabulary size from 3000 (words I knew from 6 yrs of German in highschool) to 5800 (in a few months). Would love to hear all the feedback!

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1yr ago

@petr_kubes Big congrats on your launch! Wishing you a successful and fulfilling journey. What’s been the most rewarding part of the process so far?

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1yr ago

CopyFrog.AI

Congrats on launching Vocabuo! Love the customization and efficiency! 🚀

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1yr ago

This looks dope. My grandma was the only one I spoke Spanish to, and ever since I’ve definitely forgotten parts of the language and definitely lost confidence speaking it. I’d love to test this vs other language learning apps. Hopefully the Ai component comes in handy.

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1yr ago

@hatertate unfortunately, within a couple minutes of using the app I found a handful of incorrect translations. I reported most of them but it was getting a bit tough having to write reports. In a weird way it was reinforcing what I already knew in Spanish but the translation and spelling needs a bit of work. For example: The sentence “Please, tell me what you did yesterday” was translated to “por favor *decimi* que hiciste ayer” Decimi isn’t a word in Spanish (to my knowledge) and possible answers that would be correct here are: Cuéntame, and dime. You could even write this sentence a different way that might be more accurate in day to day use I suppose “Dime que hiciste ayer” “Cuéntame que hiciste ayer” “Dígame lo que hizo ayer” (formal) Despite the inaccuracies I actually love the learning method, for someone that is familiar with the language already.

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1yr ago

Vocabuo - The vocabulary app

Maker

@hatertate Thanks for the report! I'm working on a system in which the grammar of the sentences will be checked by multiple AIs (instead of just generated by gpt-4o). That way most of the mistakes should be eliminated soon.

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1yr ago

@petr_kubes thanks good to hear! As I said I love the format. Hopefully this improvement comes soon. For now I’ll just keep the app installed

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1yr ago

Congratulations on the launch. I am always trying to learn a new language and might give it a try. I was wondering how is it different compared to Anki? Aside from having a better UI and UX.

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1yr ago

Vocabuo - The vocabulary app

Maker

@naomigarcia Thanks! The main difference is in the way you create cards. In Anki, you have to either create the cards yourself or get a community deck. In Vocabuo, the cards are auto-generated with images, sentences and audio using AI and you add them from content - Youtube, websites, texts.

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1yr ago

Telebugs

Hi Petr, The AI-powered flashcard creation sounds innovative. I'm wondering how well it handles nuances and context in different languages. Does it have mechanisms to catch and correct potential AI errors in translations or example sentences? Congrats on the launch!

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1yr ago

Vocabuo - The vocabulary app

Maker

@kyrylosilin Hi, yes in two ways: 1) The cards' content is shared between all of the users and can be reported, which immediately regenerates the card content (I'll implement some AI fixer in the future) 2) The relationship between word and sentences is 1:n, and the app prefers the most common translation of the word in sentences

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1yr ago

Nebbl

This looks useful. As I understand it, this vocabulary app represents a thoughtful attempt to improve the process of vocabulary acquisition for language learners. Congratulations on the launch!

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1yr ago

Wonderful app! Congratulations! I love how you thought about every detail.

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1yr ago

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