Show HN: My AI writing assistant for Chinese

Post by modeless » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 6:41 AM UTC

JimDabell wrote: post #8

I’m just starting to learn Mandarin at the moment and I’ve found LLMs useful for this. I can ask the question “I’m learning Mandarin, can you break this sentence into individual hanzi and explain it?” and it will do a good job of explaining everything. Or I can say something like “I was transcribing an audio recording for an exercise and I wrote X but the answer was Y, what did I do wrong?” and it will tell me that I…

Post by iansinnott » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 9:35 AM UTC

Post by Hammerhead12321 » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 12:48 PM UTC

alisonatwork wrote: post #10

JimDabell wrote: post #8

I’m just starting to learn Mandarin at the moment and I’ve found LLMs useful for this. I can ask the question “I’m learning Mandarin, can you break this sentence into individual hanzi and explain it?” and it will do a good job of explaining everything. Or I can say something like “I was transcribing an audio recording for an exercise and I wrote X but the answer was Y, what did I do wrong?” and it will tell me that I…

If you're looking for a local translation tool, I wrote a small CC-CEDICT lookup script in shell+JS then eventually rewrote it in Go so I could run it on whatever computer I was using at the time: https://github.com/alisonatwork/cedict It just does a dumb greedy search to try find the longest chain of characters for the translation, but that turns out to work more often than not: $ cedict -m 果汁很好喝 果汁 [guǒ zhī] /fruit…

Post by dwilding » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 2:36 PM UTC

BohuTANG wrote: post #16

Interesting. I use your promot and create a GPT[1], give an example: `I服了you`: 服了u: Correctly translates to "I give up on you." Unscramble: Incorrectly interpreted as "You impress me." - [1] https://chat.openai.com/g/g-tI0XLZxuR-fu-liao-u

Post by dwilding » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 2:53 PM UTC

iansinnott wrote: post #13

This is great. Foreign-language practice definitely seems like a great use case for LLMs. I'm surprised it understood your “你 dei tie ..." example, since "tie" is also valid pinyin.