I tried Hungarian. For the 3rd response it switched to Spanish, but with a Hungarian accent which was amusing but I'm not sure that was the intention :D
Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
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#282Any plans for Korean?
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#284The robot voice is not super compelling, but I like how it gives you a sparring partner to practice speaking with, even if it doesn't correct you.
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#285Amazing idea and execution. If you don’t mind revealing, can you describe the ML components in the background? Model, data trained on, etc.? Thanks and good luck!
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
So then the UI would need to be in their non-English language, which is what they are saying.
Not necessarily. Learning enough English to understand the UI is much lower level than being able to converse. It's also the difference between active and passive command of the language.
Also "right click -> Translate to " takes care of the UI automatically (in Chrome at least) but still doesn't solve the issue that English can not used to converse with the AI.
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#287First, 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.
If it were free text, sounds like a thing I would use once for the novelty then forget about, because it's not an entertaining gameplay feature. Maybe an AI could generate incidental dialog, things NPCs yell out in reaction to things around them, to keep it from always being from the same list of two or three reactions. Just my two cents. I want to play a well written and fun game, not a chat bot.
I do just want to say it because if you don't clarify all possible context on the internet you're an absolutist: I'm really excited to see more AI in games over the coming years! It has soooo many potential applications
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#288I 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…
Same for Swedish - it asked me ”Hur ser din typiska dag ut”. For any Swede who understands English, I get what they’re saying, but it’s an unnatural sentence to make.
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#289Meanwhile there are millions of people in poor countries who would love to have a conversation with you in French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. over Skype.
Poor countries people with a laptop, a descent internet connection for streaming, available at any time of the day instantly, and ready to have a 2 minutes stupid conversation about anything random ? Not so sure ..
Italki is pretty close... I know some people in my country who make some money this way.
You're right that nothing beats the convenience of the AI, but real people have other certain advantages.
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a common misconception. It probably does not match your and others' experience simply because it is conventional wisdom, and most people are taught to do this. But just because most people do something a certain way does not make it the most efficient way. There are a number of reasons why you would want to focus on input early on. For starters, with very little exposure to a language, you have very little id…
Clearly the common way is more efficient than the original suggestion, given that people achieve useful fluency in a language much quicker than spending 40 hours a week for 7 years listening to it, and only then starting to consider speaking in it.
It was just a guess. One year of regular exposure to comprehensible input should be enough to have a good enough grasp to build off of.
This is only relevant if your goal is fluency and not having think so much before speaking.