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xiaolai/most-common-american-idioms
A book created by xiaolai with the help of ChatGPT and its TTS
A static reference book of 1,355 common American idioms, each with ChatGPT-generated explanations and TTS audio files. It's a finished artifact, not a library — think downloadable study material for non-native English speakers, particularly Chinese learners given the Baidu NetDisk distribution and the author's audience.
1,355 idioms with audio is a genuinely useful coverage — broader than most phrasebooks. The Jupyter notebook is included so you can see exactly how it was generated and adapt it for your own language pairs or TTS providers. No-copyright reservation is unusually generous and practically useful for derivative work. The combined audio files (every 10 idioms) show someone actually thought about how people would use this for listening practice, not just reference lookup.
The repo is a blob store with 4,000+ MP3 files checked into git, which is exactly the wrong tool for binary assets of this size — cloning it is painful and GitHub renders it poorly. Quality control on the AI-generated content is nonexistent; ChatGPT idiom explanations can be subtly wrong about register, regional variation, or frequency of actual use. It's been untouched since mid-2024 with no issue tracker activity, so errors have no correction path. The HTML file is the canonical output but there's no hosted version, so you're downloading a 4GB+ repo just to read a book.