README.md

metadata

title: Ankira - German Dictation Trainer
emoji: ✍️
colorFrom: indigo
colorTo: green
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 6.18.0
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
tags:
  - track:backyard
  - sponsor:modal
  - achievement:llama

Linkedin post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-gamov_hackathon-hugginface-edtech-share-7472436888662966272-0TPq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAARyRM4B0zn7KlZSgZZbrgv0njDErnlWPuo

Ankira: German Dictation Trainer

A mobile-first dictation trainer. Enter the words you want to practice, get a short German dictation read aloud, write it by hand, then photograph your page to see a word-level diff against the original.

Original plan included importing well-remembered words from Anki cards for practice, thus ANKIra.

Models used

• https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-GGUF
• https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-GGUF
• https://huggingface.co/bosonai/higgs-audio-v3-tts-4b

Running

No models run in this Space — every inference is an HTTP call to a Modal endpoint. Configure these as Space secrets:

Secret	Points at
MODAL_LLM_URL	LFM2.5 llama-server base URL (OpenAI-compatible chat completions)
MODAL_TTS_URL	Higgs Audio v3 TTS (/v1/audio/speech; base URL also accepted)
MODAL_OCR_URL	Qwen3-VL llama-server base URL (multimodal chat completions)
MODAL_KEY	Modal proxy-auth token id (sent as the Modal-Key header)
MODAL_SECRET	Modal proxy-auth token secret (sent as the Modal-Secret header)

MODAL_KEY and MODAL_SECRET go together: the endpoints are deployed with requires_proxy_auth=True, and the client only sends the auth headers when both are set. Create the token in the Modal dashboard (Settings → Proxy Auth Tokens).

Our Team

• @nofate Michael Gamov
• @latticetower Tatiana Malygina

Demo