About
A mobile video player, reader assistant, image mining workflow and card creation toolkit tailored for language learners. Allows text selection of subtitles for quick lookups and export to Anki with snapshot and audio for uninterrupted language immersion.
jidoujisho
A mobile video player, reader assistant, image mining workflow and card creation toolkit tailored for language learners.
Uninterrupted language immersion at your fingertips
jidoujisho is an Android video player, reader assistant, image mining workflow and card creation toolkit with features specifically helpful for language learners.
- Text selection of subtitles allows for quick dictionary lookups within the application
- Export cards to AnkiDroid, complete with a snapshot and audio of the current context
- Selecting a word allows export to AnkiDroid with the sentence, answer, meaning and reading
- Morphological analysis of subtitles allows either tap selection or drag selection of subtitles
- Repeat the current subtitle from the beginning by flicking horizontally
- Swipe vertically to open the transcript to jump to time and review subtitles
- Open the app to trending videos in Japan, import and export a channel list and search with suggestions
- YouTube playback support for videos with Japanese closed captions and automatically generated subtitles
- Use card creator mode to quickly search images and definitions with imported photos and text
- Dictionary tab remembers words queried for review between sessions and allows resuming back to context
- Import Yomichan archive dictionaries and export cards with pitch accent information from Kanjium
- Frictionless sentence mining workflow for readers via ッツ Ebook Reader
- Mine manga with an image mining workflow designed for symbiosis with Tachiyomi and Kaku
- Playback support for network streams including Chromecast and Plex external player support
jidoujisho is still in development, and is currently in hiatus. The project will receive fixes to critical bugs and issues. Rollout of new features will resume in time.
Built for the Japanese language learning community, the application is free and open source software, and is available to download here on GitHub. Current features planned on the roadmap are listed below, but as of now there is no estimate on any updates.
Please note that the development of the app switches between changes being implemented and being left alone for daily use. Update frequency may depend on the gravity of any issues that arise. Hiatuses provide practical insight on usage and where development should go next.
- Fixes for slow video loading due to scoped storage and H.265 video playback
- Use of the AnkiDroid API instead of share intent to streamline card export and Anki output customisation
- Morphological analysis of subtitles for better text selection
- Improved monolingual dictionary support
- Various immersion modes for oral practice
- Include pitch accent information in dictionary and exported cards
- Reader enhancements for manga and novel sentence mining
- Instant queries and offline use via support of Yomichan archive format dictionaries
- Improve text segmentation and custom dictionaries query results
- Dedicated Android TV experience with a remote control
- HTML summary tags for dual query mode
- Extensive language support with text segmentation for other languages
- Tinker around with releasing the app on other platforms if possible
jidoujisho will take video and audio formats as supported by VLC. Subtitles may be embedded within the video being played and selected during playback.
If you wish to use external subtitles, they may be in SRT, ASS or SSA format and you may import them during playback through the menu. You may switch between different audio and subtitle tracks. Image-based subtitles such as PGS are not currently supported.
YouTube closed captions are taken from TimedText XML, which is only publicly exposed to videos that have user-generated Japanese subtitles. Here is a fair sample of YouTube videos with such subtitles showcasing some very practical application use cases. If unavailable, Japanese automatic captions can be queried from videos. Please be aware that critical inaccuracies are to be expected in such cases.
Below are some links that some users might find useful.
A primer on the basics of the application is as follows.
Kanjium: The pitch accent notation, verb particle data, phonetics, homonyms and other additions or modifications to EDICT, KANJIDIC or KRADFILE were provided by Uros O. through his free database.
Download source code on GitHub
Provides the list of the opensource Flutter apps collection with GitHub repository.