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First, I’d like to say I really love this product. Thanks for making this. Second, where are the companies that are doing this type of thing for NPC dialogue in games. Imagine playing Mass Effect or Skyrim but where you get to ask whatever and the NPC responds with something that fits within the space of possible answers based on the prompt that defined their existence.
I'm stunned by how well this works for Japanese, the only language I think I'm good enough at to judge the AI's responses. The speech recognition is flawless as far as I can tell. The AI occasionally gets itself into a loop of repeating my question or itself, but I think this has been a problem with a lot of chatbots. The only glaring errors I've seen so far are these kinds of AI-specific issues, like forgetting cont…
In another one it asked me if it was okay to sit next to me and I replied with いや、遠慮しときます (which was marked as a "grammar mistake") and the AI just said ありがとうございます and "sat down" next to me nonetheless.
So far I'm not impressed, it looks like a chatbot piped through Google translate.
What do you use for speech synthesis? I have a little side project I'm investigating text-to-speech engines for (aiming for as much realism as possible, at least in English, plus the ability to possibly modify errant pronunciation somehow, and add pauses of varying length)
Meanwhile there are millions of people in poor countries who would love to have a conversation with you in French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. over Skype.
It really looks cool. But, why it doesn't have English? Or meybe if it does have, why isn't showed first? People who use language learning apps are focused in learning English most of the time. Still those who speak fluently are trying to improve their speaking and listening. And the first language which appeared for me was Brazilian Portuguese which is my mother language. [Edit] I was trying the Brazilian Portuguese…
Hahah I have a super silly response for this one: It's simply because we have not gotten around to translate the UI and everything into other languages besides english. That's why we simple assume people know english, since they need to be able to know at least some english to use it. But it's high on our to-do list.
for example instead of Ты (you singular) it should say вы (you plural)
Duolingo explains:
Russian makes a distinction between ты, singular "you", and вы, plural "you". The latter also doubles for "polite" you, with verbs also in plural. And don't forget that the "excuse" in "Excuse me" is a verb!
Use ты with friends and your family members
Use вы with adult strangers, your teachers and in other formal interactions (at the store, doctor's, airport etc.)
People use вы with those who are much older.
Nobody is "polite" toward kids.I tried using it in Portuguese and it's cool but it seems very off, just a huge number of things that don't sound even remotely natural or idiomatic. But when I click the translate button, the English translation is a perfectly reasonable thing to say. SO... I'm highly suspecting that, behind the scenes, the "real" conversation is happening in English, and it's translating in both directions. Which is always going to…
For this reason I prefer DeepL over Google Translate. The former has a much more curated corpus.