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Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Italian native here. The quality of "podcast" is really really good. I spotted only one mispronounciation in the first couple minutes ("siete pronti ad immergervi...": immergervi had the stress on the wrong syllabe) but the rest was extremely good - kudos!

Same for "principi", pronounced with accent on first i instead of the second, "Sassoni" on the o instead of a. However I agree..very very good!!

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

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In the meanwhile, try this to train your ear and practice French with current news using easy vocabulary (they do speak very clearly, worked wonders for me when I was learning). https://francaisfacile.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/journal-en-françai...

try https://frenchspin.fr/category/le-rdv-tech/ for tech news

Merci !

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

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I'm guessing choosing a regional variety of Spanish to use could be fraught.

I'm sure you're already familiar with the following, but could be interesting for others. Spain (the country) has multiple official languages, one of them being the European Spanish called Castellano Spanish. This is what people refer to as "Spanish language". However there are others, like Catalonian, Galician, Basque, Valenciano etc. languages, which are also "Spanish", but not mutually intelligible with Castellano…

Even sticking to Castilian, the regional accents and vocabulary choices could differ. You could pick a neutral Castilian accent from Spain, potentially alienating Latin Americans but I think this is often received OK if a little off. You could pick something that sounds like Mexico or Colombia, which are each common choices for things with an international audience. But then, say, an Argentine accent, to pick out one, would sound pretty different.

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

As a native Italian speaker I can tell you two things: 1. The translation is great. I actually never used ChatGPT for translating content and this opens a new world for me. 2. The text-to-speech is good, but less so than the translation itself. It still is completely understandable, but if you are a learner I believe it could cause some bad habits over time. For instance, at around the 30 second mark, the translation…

Got a spanish episode generated. Let me know what you think :)

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

#87
post #5
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Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

Would be really cool in Spanish!

Got a spanish episode generated. Let me know what you think :)

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

#88
post #37
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Ok, let me try and generate one episode for you when I get home. Curious to hear what you think afterwards :)

i too would love to listen to a Mexican Spanish version

Got a spanish episode generated. Generic Spanish so far, but I did see they have some dialects on Play.HT. Let me know what you think :)

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

#89
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i too would love to listen to a Mexican Spanish version

I would love Spanish from Salamanca, Spain — which is supposed to be the gold standard.

Got a spanish episode generated. Is this similar to the dialect you'd expect? Let me know what you think :)

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

#90
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Would be really cool in Spanish!

Yep Spanish Spanish (Madrid) please!

One Spanish episode going your way. Not sure it's Madrid Spanish, but should be decent hopefully. Let me know what you think :)

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853

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