I tried in Italian. Speech to text is impressive: kudos. The conversation was definitely weird and very repetitive. It needs more work I think. In any case, great idea and I am sure that you will soon enough get a fantastic product out.
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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Based on just a few exchanges in Dutch (I'm a native speaker), I'd say it's pretty good. The conversation sounds pretty natural (albeit shallow). Maybe the quality differs per language?
Yes exactly. Currently there are slight quality differences depending on the chosen language. We're working on improvements in all languages.
What translator do you use? If it's any other than DeepL, you're making a mistake!
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Dutch is a sister language of English so I’m not surprised
Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.)
> Believe me, if I the syntax in Dutch would keep, get you a very strange result. (This is a literal translation of a correct Dutch sentence.)
Of course there are differences, but both Dutch and English are West Germanic languages (descended from proto-Germanic) whereas Portuguese is a Romance language (descended from Latin).
Here is a handy tree showing how various languages are related to each other:
https://d1sjtleuqoc1be.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/201...
Re: Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
#304Tried Brazilian Portuguese - the accent is spot on, but the wording is completely off (reads a bit like Portuguese from Portugal). Great starting point though!
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From what I read (on /r/gamedesign, /r/proceduralgeneration and Gamasutra) it's about control. The AAA studies leave nothing to chance when it is about the game play. Once "AI" speech comes to a level where the NPC will only answer with pre-sanctioned content they might jump onto the band wagon ... but seeing that it is very much possible to generate porn with "censored" stable diffusion ... we won't see "free" AIs i…
and imagine if plot leaks happen through an NPC... would ruin the game! ultimately we care more about our character than the NPC being "realistic".
This reminds me of the captors in Iron Man exposing plot spoilers, but only if you happen to understand Urdu.
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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.
> Not necessarily. Learning enough English to understand the UI is much lower level than being able to converse.
Exactly this. For example, I am learning German and have changed the language of my reading tablet's UI to German. That in itself is a useful learning tool.
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#307Here I was, hoping to find Klingon as an option.
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To prevent DoS from a tonne of people using it just as AI conversation buddy when they know English perfectly well? Or said another way - I think there's lots of English AI conversation bots available, they're just not necessarily marketed as 'for learning English'.
You can't train AI using another AI. If you could, these people would just run the service locally.
I'm not sure I follow/see the link to my comment?
Re: Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
#309This is amazing. German and Bulgarian are great.
Re: Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
#310I tried Spanish, it gave me a sentence and I had no idea what it meant so I replied ay tío, no entiendo nada! and it actually explained to me in simpler terms what it meant. Pretty good!