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fabiensnauwaert

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    Comment #36955783

    Posted about Gliglish.com a few months back which does the same thing.

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    Comment #36256111

    Have you thought about adding speech synthesis to it? For languages like such as English and French, with very opaque spelling, this sounds critical.

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    Comment #36256066

    Hey, thanks! How can I contacter toi ?

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    Comment #36256018

    Yes, one step at a time :) Definitely high on the list, pronunciation is very dear to my heart.

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    Comment #36255997

    Hey, Could you please send me an email on how you did it at hello@gliglish.com ? I take this seriously.

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    Comment #36237440

    It's the default model from the OpenAI API endpoint.

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    Comment #36237425

    There's a translation button. Should I make it more prominent? I'll also add voice and translations to the suggestions provided on every screen. It's also a matter of learning styl…

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    Comment #36237400

    Cool project! I always meant to do something like this but never got around to playing with the tech. r/languagelearning/ does not currently accept anything relating to AI. Here's …

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    Comment #36237369

    Hey! Thanks for the balanced feedback, all totally valid. (1) I'm self-directed in my learning and always knew what I wanted my teachers to do, but everyone's different. Definitely…

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    Comment #36237282

    I've seen people terrified at the idea of speaking (hell, I experienced it myself decades ago.) It's not always even a matter of level. People with good grammar and a lot of vocabu…

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    Comment #36237261

    Yes, definitely want to add something in those lines, where the AI detects your level and adapts in more than one way.

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    Comment #36232909

    Hey, thanks for the input and happy to have a healthy debate! I'm a bit confused though: > all the input I got was some lines of text Didn't you hear the audio? Or what else were y…

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    Comment #36232646

    I should have disabled 'Multilingual speech recognition' by default. Lesson learned.

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    Comment #36232281

    Thank you for the encouragements! > you're probably in need of content that users will feel compelled to share on social media and other places That's a very good point. > It was s…

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    Comment #36232075

    Did you try with multilingual speech recognition turned off?

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    Comment #36232070

    It does and that's indeed Whisper I'm currently using. I do have mixed feelings about it: - On the one hand, it performs well in so many cases… and having multilingual support buil…

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    Comment #36232015

    I learned for foreign languages and was obviously a beginner in each. Not sure what hating on 'AI' and 'scalable' (your word by the way, not mine) accomplishes.

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    Comment #36231957

    And, well… "glass half-empty or glass half-full?" Speech recognition is far from perfect but even then it's incredibly useful. It CAN be infuriating (or downright hilarious). Hell,…

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    Comment #36231794

    Thank you! I've had a few people request an option to disable suggestions but you're the first to present the use case, which is super useful to me! I'll add an option to minimize …

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    Comment #36231734

    Thank you! Feels good to hear. Tried to keep it simple, how I like to use sites, not pesky. Gotta look into language schools, you're right… Someone suggested doing a deal with the …

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    Comment #36231705

    It's Whisper as well and should behave the exact same way. Are you in the same setting (mic, ambient noise)?

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    Comment #36231680

    Hey! Thanks for the feedback! > I think there are a few places where you need to fine tune your prompts, at least for Korean language learning Can you expand on this one, please? >…

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    Comment #36231547

    Hey, thanks! :) Will add Japanese and Chinese momentarily. Which variation of Arabic would you want to learn? You make a good point. I might need to hire a salesperson or do a busi…

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    Comment #36231503

    @gorpomon and @jjkeddo199 Great talking points! I thought about this a lot, but still don't have a good answer: how easy should it be to translate? - If you make it too easy, like …