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Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI

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Re: Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI

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Post by adriand »

Hadjimina wrote: post #31
zeryx wrote: post #8

Looks like there's still a few bugs, completely unable to have my voice recorded correctly or the install link to work on android

Yep we are super early and still have some bugs. Could you tell me what browser you were using? B.c. maybe you did not give the browser the permission to record stuff with the microphone and then things break.

Agreed that this is very cool, this is a massive unsolved niche in the language learning market. Execute effectively on this and you've got it made. So I noticed that on MacOS Firefox, the app never asked me for microphone permissions and thus didn't work at all. But worked well on Chrome (which I only have for testing purposes).

Re: Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI

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Post by e-clinton »

Hadjimina wrote: post #24
Tade0 wrote: post #11

From the FAQ: > It might, however, also be that the conversation partner is feeling uncomfortable talking about certain things. Does this mean that users talk to actual people or am I not understanding this correctly?

So in the background we are checking if the stuff you are talking about is "risky". If that is detected, the conversation partner will just answer with something like "hmmm I don't feel comfortable talking about that" to keep it all in safe territory.

How do you scale that? Or is the goal to automate that as well with AI?

Re: Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI

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Post by rtavares »

werdnapk wrote: post #21

Loading screen doesn't go away in Firefox after choosing a language.

This happened to me too. I'm using Brave and I needed to disable its Shields. Maybe you have some extension impacting the site, like an ad blocker?

Re: Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI

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Post by bobajeff »

In my opinion the issue with most language programs is that they focus too early on speaking when listening should be the focus early on. Really speaking shouldn't even come into the picture until exposure of about a year and something like 15,000 hours of good comprehensible input.

Re: Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI

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Post by imdsm »

Great idea but the microphone just wouldn't work for me. Also, in one statement, the AI chose a name that sounded like jirybadjirybadjirybadjirybadjirybadjirybad — repetitive. I'm not judging but I thought it was broken for a moment. Shame the microphone hangs.
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