Tori
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Tori just launched: it turns your own writing into Japanese listening practice. It translates, adds audio, and gives you four ways to drill the same material.
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Tori launched today with a very specific pitch: don’t start from someone else’s textbook examples, start from your own words. The app takes what you read or journal, translates each sentence, adds furigana and audio, and sorts everything into “topic islands.”
That setup is really the point. Instead of bouncing between random exercises, Tori keeps pulling from the sentences you already care about. Then it gives you four ways to work with them: passive listening with the screen off, shadowing that plays your voice alongside the model, AI stories matched to your level, and SRS flashcards with audio on every card.
And when listening and memorising stop being enough, there’s a speaking mode too. Tori says you can practise with an AI tutor across 15 real scenarios. That pushes it beyond a pure study aid and into something closer to a full practice loop, at least on paper.
The app is live now on Product Hunt and is sitting at 14 followers. It’s a tidy little bundle of language-learning features, but the sharper idea is the source material itself: your own writing, recycled into study content instead of being left to rot in a notes app.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the right kind of AI language app: boring in the best way, built around repetition instead of magic. The industry loves to promise fluency; Tori at least promises more listening practice, which is a much less glamorous but far more believable trade. The trick now is whether people want discipline disguised as an app, or another shiny excuse to avoid actually studying.
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