I've built a small app that will sync your Renshuu vocabulary and grammar and then use an OpenAI provider to generate challenge sentences for you based on your skill level. It will either generate an English sentence for you to translate to Japanese, or a Japanese sentence for you to translate back to English. It can show you furigana and supports clicking words to see their definitions. It prefers definitions that came directly from Renshuu when available.
I'm looking for people to help test it on Android or Linux right now. Maybe Windows, but I care more about mobile. No iOS yet - I don't have a Mac, and I'd need to get one to use their dev tooling.
Caveats and requirements:
* You need your own OpenAI provider API key and endpoint. If you don't know what this means, this probably isn't for you. * AI is not perfect, and some OpenAI-compatible providers are better than others, so there should be no expectation that your translations are accurately scored by the LLM. * You need to understand how to install Android apps from untrusted sources or how to sideload apps with ADB
There's a button to copy the app logs to email them if you see any funny behaviors. Right now, it doesn't always do a great job picking the correct reading for kanji, and sometimes the dictionary lookup choices are bad.
If you are interested in testing, please DM me so that I can send you a link to download the APK. I will not be posting the download information here.
Note that this is not meant to replace Renshuu or steal anything from Renshuu. This is a companion app to give you "randomly" generated translation practice.
I do not use any AI in renshuu, but the API (which, for those who are not aware, is an open "connection" to use some of the data in renshuu) is open for people to do whatever they want with it!
This user reached out to me before this was released. There is nothing wrong with using the API in a way that works for you - it does not change anything about how things are run inside of renshuu, data in renshuu, or anything else in renshuu.
While renshuu itself has a stance on how we run things, I do not believe I have the right to enforce my beliefs on those outside of renshuu - you do whatever is best for you!
Edit: Also note, to the OP, that there are no DMs between users on renshuu (only users and myself), so no one will be able to contact you.
