This is amazing. I tried coffeshop with Spanish and worked great. I wouldnt mind paying subscriptions for this like i do for duolingo. Congrats!
Show HN: I built an AI language teacher to get you speaking
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#42Okay, here's some brutal feedback, please take it with your best interests at heart. I am an English native speaker who has lived in Spain for 10 years, and has become fluent. 1) These speech-to-text models are poor when it comes to non-natives. This is unfortunate as the idea you had and the product you've designed could be incredible for language learning. However - it's a bit crap - sorry - I can speak Spanish wel…
It completely misunderstood me as well in spanish, it actually inputted english instead of spanish. I like the idea but this is not working at all for me, at least for now.
For the creator: Do not get discouraged, I hope you do get this working properly and see a lot of traction.
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#43Looking at this I've been trying to use GPT like this for a while which I'm assuming is all this is. That said, the experience leaves a lot to be desired. 1. As someone else mentioned, I am coming into this having no idea about the language. Some way to identify words would be nice. Or some actual teaching. 2. I don't like that I'm forced to talk to it. I wanted to be able to just chat with it.
Hey, thank you for the feedback!
1. Would having translations of the suggestions help? I obviously want to add them (along with their pronunciations), but have had to do other things first.
2. Like I said in the OP, I want to add an option to type and click.
Need to share something: I've taught English for decades and learned four foreign languages and the biggest mistake I've seen others and me do is to read too much and speak too little. Students who study a language for years before speaking develop apprehension and bad habits that take years to fix.
Wanna strike a balance between the need/encouragements to speak and the flexibility to use a tool however one wants to use it.
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#44This is a very promising platform. However, it misses some very crucial things about learning languages.
Here goes: Learning languages is mostly about getting tons of input. I tried using this for a few minutes, but all the input I got was some lines of text.
Also: People say that learners don't get as much chances to output as they would like. That isn't mostly true. And even farther from the truth is to say that outputting more would lead to better language acquisition.
Nice try, though.
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#45Holy crap this is awesome. Talking for the first time after learning from books can be really intimidating, this is going to be a game-changing way for people to practice alone and build up to talking to other people.
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#46It's been working way better than I expected. Good job!
Thank you! I actually got that reaction from a few users , this is always nice to hear though. It's far from perfect though. I'll try my best!
It suddenly switched from German to French in my transcription, and then the teacher switched too. A bug to look into I guess https://gliglish.com/convo/b4104729-35c2-4c97-a887-9bae730ca...
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#47I think this could bridge the gap for many people stuck at A level and trying to cross to actual communication, which requires lots of interaction so that the words and sentences start popping up.
Re: Show HN: I built an AI language teacher to get you speaking
#48Okay, here's some brutal feedback, please take it with your best interests at heart. I am an English native speaker who has lived in Spain for 10 years, and has become fluent. 1) These speech-to-text models are poor when it comes to non-natives. This is unfortunate as the idea you had and the product you've designed could be incredible for language learning. However - it's a bit crap - sorry - I can speak Spanish wel…
Eh I disagree. It's not perfect, but that's just about expectation management. Users don't expect voice-to-text to be perfect - in fact, the past 10 years shitty experiences have been the norm. I think it depends on the level of mistakes the transcribing makes, but that's only going to improve with time with advances in AI and as the product evolves (using the context of the conversation like you say would be a great start).
Even in its current state this is an awesome product. There are so so many people in the world learning a language, and one of the hardest parts is practicing after you stop learning (like you leaving Spain). People like that will really love something like this
In future especially to be able to cater to people who are still learning, it should be feasible to use a similar product to train and correct people's pronounciation.
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#49Mexican Spanish didn't work at all. It asked me "Como te llamas" and I replied, "Me llamo Isaac", which got speech-recognized into some French sentence. I tried again saying "Si, me llamo Isaac" and it got recognized as some gibberish like "C. Mi anno E Sack" or something.
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#50I am also working on an app for learning langues and I must say, you've built quite a lot in 6-7 months!
Gaining and retaining users is always a problem that startups face. With language learning apps, it's hard because the marketplace is already crowded and learners will stop when they've learned a sufficient amount or just give up.
Prioritizing marketing and promotion can be difficult because it's very easy to get sucked into a project improving the product or adding a new feature. I think you're probably in need of content that users will feel compelled to share on social media and other places. You've gotten your app on HN and ProductHunt, Good job.
Some feedback - I tried your app for Spanish. I am somewhere between A2 and B1 level. It was slow to send the recording then provide a response, the speed would make it impractical to use in a practice setting. I wanted to type in instead of speak because I knew it was going to take some time for it to process.
As a learner, I think that chat bots have a place but I much prefer to spend my time talking to a real person over an ai/chat bot. I'd rather it ask me what I wanted to talk about than having a really boring conversation (what's your name? what do you do? where are you from?, etc.)
What level would you say the majority of users that are using your app are?
Good luck with your app, it's a huge effort.