What's new
Each version, newest first: what you can do now that you could not before, and what was fixed. A feature marked Computer or Phone is only on that one; the rest are on both.
Version 0.6.9
Settings was rearranged from the ground up, translation can now run on your own device, and SlukaCC can read subtitles that are part of the video itself.
Settings has one menu, grouped under Reading & words, Videos, Extras and Devices & data, with the open category's sections listed under it. Every row looks the same: a name, one line on what it does, the control on the right. Rows that depend on a switch stay out of the way until the switch is on, and the search box finds those too.
Under Settings → Languages → Who translates, pick On this computer (On this device in the app). The word panel, sentence mode and SlukaCC's translation line are then translated offline by Mozilla's models, the ones Firefox uses. Each language pair is a one-time download (70 MB for Chinese to English).
For Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Thai they are noticeably weaker than Google: in our test about one subtitle line in five came out wrong, against one in thirty.
Some videos have their subtitles drawn into the picture, so there is no track to read. SlukaCC can now read them off the screen: pick From the picture in its track menu, and each line becomes clickable text like any other subtitle, with the original blurred underneath. It works on the computer and in the Android app, and on the Videos page for your own files. A new line usually shows up within a quarter of a second.
The Videos page keeps your films on a shelf with folders, like the books, and remembers where you stopped. It uses subtitles already inside the video file, and when there are none it can make them from the speech: with an OpenAI or ElevenLabs key, or on the computer with a local Whisper model. Watching counts as listening time.
On the computer, karaoke mode now works there too, a click on the picture pauses and plays, and the SlukaCC and full-screen buttons sit in the bottom-right corner as on YouTube.
A film with more than one sound track, a dub and the original say, gets a Sound track menu in the player's top bar. The film starts on the one you picked last time, and Anki clips and Generate subtitles use it too. Dolby and DTS tracks can't be played in the browser and are shown greyed out.
Settings → Voice → Your own voices lists every free Piper voice that works in Sluka, 117 of them, by language. Listen to a sample, then download it with one click. Read aloud now speaks with your own Piper voice too. None of these voices exist yet for Japanese, Thai or Cantonese.
A book can have its audio now. Import an audiobook and Sluka lines it up with the text on your computer, or have a voice read the book into a recording. Then play it with the words lighting up as they are said.
Add an .srt, .vtt, .ass, .ssa, .ttml or .dfxp file under Read a book and it opens like any other book. Timings and tags are dropped, the lines join into paragraphs, and a pause of two seconds or more starts a new one. A language code in the file name stays out of the title.
The Android app now opens .cbz manga, single pictures and scanned PDFs and reads the words off the page, so they can be highlighted, looked up and counted, as on the computer. Each page takes several seconds the first time; a book you open again shows its text at once.
German nouns get their article in the word panel, coloured by gender: der blue, die red, das green. Cards sent to Anki get the coloured article too.
Known words can have a colour of their own. Words known in the other script are pink. Levels 3 and 4 can be a fainter fill instead of a line, and a button copies the whole colour scheme between pages and SlukaCC, either way.
The panel no longer covers the word it is about, also when you scroll in reading mode. You can choose where it opens: next to the word, or always at the left or right edge of the screen.
The pill with your new and learning counts has six dots at its right end. Drag them to put the pill anywhere on the screen; it stays there on every page. Double-click the dots to send it back to its corner.
