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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

439 points david927 | 2 comments | 29 Jun 25 20:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.589s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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ArneVogel ◴[30 Jun 25 05:10 UTC] No.44419635[source]▶
Hej, I made FisherLoop[1] to learn Swedish. FisherLoop are interactive audiobooks where I use TTS with word level timestamps to highlight the words as they are spoken. This helps me pick up on pronounciation and grammar in a, for me, natural way. Additionally, I added flashcards from the books + word lookup. I am adding new books right now. If you have any requests: public domain books, which are around one hour reading time let me know :)

I am using cerebras for book translations and verb extraction and all LLM related tasks. For TTS I am using cartesia. I have played around with Elevenlabs and they have slightly natural sounding TTS but their pricing is too steep for this project. Books would cost a couple of hundred euros to process.

[1] https://www.fisherloop.com/en/

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1. philip-b ◴[30 Jun 25 13:51 UTC] No.44423270[source]▶
Is there such a thing for Spanish?
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2. ArneVogel ◴[30 Jun 25 16:00 UTC] No.44424829[source]▶
Maybe I should have clarified, in addition to Swedish, I have added Spanish, Italian, German, and French.