Whats up Product Hunt 👋
I am 0, the maker. AI Shadowing is the software I constructed for myself — some way to make use of YouTube for language studying with out the friction that just about made me hand over two times.
Fast context: I went from German A0 to A2 in about 3-4 months through shadowing local YouTube movies, 30-45 min an afternoon. The method works — I were given to the place I may persist with informal dinner chitchat with my good friend’s folks (now not the jokes or speedy bits, however sufficient to nod alongside and ask follow-ups). However the *procedure* was once brutal:
1. To replay one sentence: drag YouTube scrubber → overshoot → drag once more → look ahead to buffer. Rhythm dies each and every time.
2. Unknown phrase? Transfer to dictionary app, come again, scrub to the place you have been. 5 seconds of friction each and every minute, for an hour directly.
3. YouTube’s personal captions are constructed for studying alongside, now not training — auto-generated on maximum movies, no punctuation, break up mid-sentence each and every ~3 seconds, no solution to loop, no inline look up.
AI Shadowing fixes all 3:
🎯 Paste any YouTube URL → sentence-by-sentence transcript with correct punctuation (AI cleans up the uncooked captions)
🔁 Click on any sentence to loop it immediately — no scrubbing
📖 Click on any phrase for an rapid AI grammar rationalization that if truth be told solutions the follow-up questions I might save for my instructor
⏱️ Configurable pause between sentences for shadowing observe
📁 Additionally: add your individual audio (MP3 / MP4 / ZIP), identical shadowing UI, syncs throughout browser + telephone
Some fair scope so that you would not have to invite:
– No longer for absolute inexperienced persons (A0). Get started with a textbook + elementary vocab first; shadowing is the following layer.
– Would possibly not substitute dialog observe. That is the lacking piece for the lonely center of self-study, now not a complete program.
– I in my view use the **Android model** far more — telephone in pocket way I observe at the bus, strolling, ready in line. It isn’t on Play Retailer but (internet is what is reside). If as of late’s release displays pastime, I will push the Android construct thru.
Tech (since this crowd cares): Flutter (Internet + Android), Gemini for caption cleanup + the click-to-explain characteristic, Google Cloud TTS for pronunciation. Constructed solo over ~3 months, evenings + weekends.
Loose, no signup. 11 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Eastern, Korean, Simplified + Conventional Chinese language.
Monetization: not anything but. Server-side AI + TTS is not loose, so most probably freemium later — however I wish to see what other folks if truth be told use first.
Would like brutal comments, particularly:
– What language are you studying, and is the workflow lacking one thing for that language?
– Which characteristic is the “I might come again for this” hook, and which seems like noise?
– What would make you turn from no matter you now use (or what stops you from shadowing in any respect)?
Thank you for having a look 🙏
