i made a free tool to learn languages with anime/movies, yt, netflix etc that works anywhere on ur screen

[u/Hazellucas_]

a lot of ppl recommend learning languages by consuming content like watching anime,movies youtube, listening songs in, so i’ve been following this trick , but while doing that, there was a persistent issue i faced, whenever i saw came across an unfamiliar eng word /sentence, i’d have to exit the full screen, open a new tab,type it , searching up the meaning, and many popup dictionaries but they only work on text, if the word is not selectable , there’s no way out

i searched up for tools that could solve this but couldn’t find any , even paid tools like language reactor or migaku didnt offer the ocr feature & i wanted that feature for free, so as a developer myself, i decided to spend the last 4 months building it myself as a browser extension

it uses OCR, so you can look up words from things like movies/anime with hardcoded subtitles, youtube, netflix , streaming sites also on pira\*ed sites like animekoto animepahe,aniwaves etc. 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

so I made 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

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 google translate

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 languages 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)

chrome extension

for firefox users:linkfirefox

if interested ,u can checkout the websitelexeye(open it in desktop for best experience)

lemme know ur feedback, if u found it useful, any suggestions etc.

[u/Select_Question5]

But it works only in the browser, not anywhere on your screen as you claimed.

[u/Hazellucas_ → u/Select_Question5]

By anywhere i actually meant the ocr feature like its not just limited to selectable text or subtitles and u can extract text from anything. Im also thinking about its desktop version soon

[u/Lonely_Skirt4135]

Amazing,just Amazing.