asbplayer

FreeListening & Video Toolskillergerbah.github.io

Best for: Sentence mining from shows and videos

Overview

Free, open-source browser player and extension for watching Japanese video with subtitles, including on streaming sites, and mining sentences from them into Anki.

Strengths

  • Works with streaming sites and local files
  • Sends sentences with audio and screenshot to Anki

Drawbacks

  • Takes some setup with Anki

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