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Show HN: OpenLanguage- AI Language Tutor for iOS

OpenLanguage is an AI-powered iOS language tutoring app built entirely with SwiftUI and the MVVM architecture. It offers a customizable learning experience with AI-generated dialogues, pronunciation training, and difficulty adaptation using OpenAI's API and ElevenLabs for text-to-speech.

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- This is a "Show HN" post, meaning a developer is presenting their own project to the Hacker News community for feedback. Hacker News is a tech-news aggregation site run by Y Combinator, popular among engineers and startup founders. - The project is an open-source (publicly available code) iOS app that uses AI to help users practice foreign languages. "Open" in the name signals it's free to inspect, modify, or self-host — unlike most AI language tutors which are proprietary. - The app likely uses a large language model (LLM) — the same kind of AI behind ChatGPT — to act as a conversation partner, give corrections, or generate exercises. Running such AI locally on an iPhone is technically challenging, which is part of the novelty. - Language-learning apps like Duolingo or Babbel are the commercial competitors; this project offers a free, privacy-focused alternative where user data stays on-device.

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