For some reason, probably my corporate firewall, this is blocked by certificate errors for me.
Show HN: Duolingo-style exercises but with real-world content like the news
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#22Awesome idea! Do you plan to add Portuguese soon? I found it surprising that Dutch is in there before it given there are far fewer speakers. Was this related to the amount of content available?
Thanks! And yes I'll add it soon. I'm Dutch so I could validate the videos.
> Was this related to the amount of content available?
Yes, Portuguese is available in the app, but I only transcribe the Easy Portuguese videos for now so I don't have a lot of content available at the moment.
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#23I tried the japanese version. I like that you are using real Japanese language YouTube videos. You can see the kanji on the videos though so it kind of defeated the point. Hide the video? Great idea though and very fun too.
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#24Really cool idea! I tried a few Spanish ones (I speak Spanish) and unfortunately it was marking things as incorrectly wrong on 2/5 videos I did!
That's a bit unfortunate, sorry about that!
I only checked English, French, Dutch and German and assumed that Spanish would be OK. Was this for drag & drop. And do you maybe have the video? Maybe I need to tune the quality threshold specifically for Spanish videos.
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#25For some reason, probably my corporate firewall, this is blocked by certificate errors for me.
Probably YouTube is blocked by the corporate firewall. Or my whole domain?
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#26I just tried the Dutch (my native language) version, and it looks neat, but at some point it asked me to type Emmeloord, which is a small town in the Netherlands. That would be very challenging for someone learning the language without being relatively familiar with the Netherlands, so maybe you can tell the LLM to avoid names?
Hah thanks for the suggestion. I'll make it more strict!
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#27Awesome idea! Do you plan to add Portuguese soon? I found it surprising that Dutch is in there before it given there are far fewer speakers. Was this related to the amount of content available?
Thanks! And yes I'll add it soon. I'm Dutch so I could validate the videos. > Was this related to the amount of content available? Yes, Portuguese is available in the app, but I only transcribe the Easy Portuguese videos for now so I don't have a lot of content available at the moment.
I checked the Portuguese content available and you should clarify it's Brazilian (and change the flag to the Brazilian one so it doesn't induce in error).
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#28Hey, this looks really nice and worked like a breeze for French! Question: out of the processing steps you mention - transcription, quality filtering, segment selection, and (I guess) wrong-word selection) are there any truly manual steps? Those would be the ones that prevent you from building this for just about any language that has good transcription available, right?
There are no manual steps. But it is hard to gatekeep quality. The transcription models work well for the large languages but not so much for the smaller ones.
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#29Really cool idea! I tried a few Spanish ones (I speak Spanish) and unfortunately it was marking things as incorrectly wrong on 2/5 videos I did!
That's a bit unfortunate, sorry about that! I only checked English, French, Dutch and German and assumed that Spanish would be OK. Was this for drag & drop. And do you maybe have the video? Maybe I need to tune the quality threshold specifically for Spanish videos.
I actually did the same video on desktop and the same answers worked fine! Screenshots of it failing in an android webview, but passing on desktop firefox: https://imgur.com/a/vALlFdH.
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#30Did you hand-pick the videos? My first one was some Elon Musk conspiracy dumpster and the second one some church “morality” thing… I think it’s a good example of what not to do with LLMs. Also, your page needs to disclose any content filtered by or generated by a model.
No I let the LLM filter on "non-war and non-politics" but I don't have a ton of content available (yet) so it might picked something that was not great. Which language did you try?