Voracious - video player for learning languages

Voracious

A video player for
learning languages
(esp. Japanese)

Extract more learning from your media immersion with easy dictionary lookups, powerful subtitle modes, and instant Anki export.

Download (version 0.6.0):

Wish you could study with Netflix? Try my other tool Subadub, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that enhances Netflix subtitles for foreign language study.

Features

• Scan and browse your media collection (ala Kodi or Plex)
• Simultaneously display multiple subtitle languages/tracks (all common formats supported)
• Quickly replay the current subtitle and navigate forward and back by subtitle using the keyboard
• Train your listen/reading/comprehension with special viewing modes that automatically pause and hide/reveal subtitles
• Export subtitles as sentence cards to Anki (with audio and/or image, ala subs2srs), instantly via AnkiConnect
• (Japanese) Hover over words to see dictionary definitions
• (Japanese) Automatically generate furigana annotations
• (Japanese) Import and use popular EPWING dictionaries
• Free and open source (code on GitHub)

Upcoming Features?

Let us know what you want

• Search for words/phrases over your entire library of subtitles
• Look up words in definitions (for monolingual "branching")
• Adjust begin/end timing of subtitle audio before export to Anki
• Transcode videos with unsupported codecs