Hacker News with Generative AI: Japanese Language

Jargonic Sets New SOTA for Japanese ASR (aiola.ai)
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems often excel in lab conditions but struggle in real-world enterprise environments—especially when it comes to linguistically complex languages like Japanese.
Japanese Language, Machine Learning
19 points by four_fifths 2 days ago | 4 comments
Japanese Typography Essentials: Japanese Type Between Japanese and Latin (researchgate.net)
Typography, Japanese Language, Design, Language
13 points by bryanrasmussen 24 days ago | 2 comments
The Japanese Writing System Explained: Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji (kanjimaster.ai)
When students begin the journey of learning Japanese, they are met with a fascinating yet complex writing system composed of three scripts: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.
Japanese Language, Writing Systems, Education, Hiragana, Katakana
18 points by adilmoujahid 43 days ago | 6 comments
Guide to Japanese Idioms (japanswitch.com)
七転び八起き・Nanakorobiyaoki Do you know what that is? That’s one of the Japanese idioms. An idiom is an expression, quote, or phrase that usually brings up a figurative meaning that is not literal, that is connected to the phrase. It is often a customary turn of phrase that is only comprehensible because it is popular and used by most people.
Japanese Language, Idioms, Culture, Language Learning
20 points by agarttha 121 days ago | 2 comments
Show HN: Kurdle – Wordle Meets Japanese Kanji (ycombinator.com)
Hello HN!<p>I built Kurdle (https://japanesecomplete.com/kurdle.html), a Wordle variant that teaches Japanese kanji through English word patterns.
Wordle, Kanji, Japanese Language, Educational Games, Programming
14 points by jpcom 163 days ago | 2 comments
In Japanese You Need a Dictionary to Count Things (aethermug.com)
Japanese Language, Language Learning, Linguistics
21 points by mrcgnc 274 days ago | 10 comments
Building a Large Japanese Web Corpus for Large Language Models (arxiv.org)
Japanese Language, Data Sets, Research
76 points by PaulHoule 373 days ago | 29 comments
The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language (aethermug.com)
Linguistics, Japanese Language, Culture
351 points by mrcgnc 381 days ago | 237 comments