Well I broke it immediately, haha. Sorry about that. Apparently it doesn't like Chinese.
Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
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Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#12This is an interesting idea.
But, besides not being able to use your site due to the errors mentioned by other posters, both the examples on your website give me pause:
The example input "Kan you hjelmpe mig {yesterday}?" reads to me as "Can you help me yesterday?", but that's just a nonsense sentence and an odd choice for an example. The word for "help" is also misspelled, but presumably that would get corrected.
And the suggestion of "Jeg vil gerne handle i morgen" for "Jeg vil gerne go shopping i morgen", instead reads to me as "I would like to act tomorrow". A more idiomatic translation would be "Jeg vil gerne købe ind i morgen".
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#13This is an interesting idea. But, besides not being able to use your site due to the errors mentioned by other posters, both the examples on your website give me pause: The example input "Kan you hjelmpe mig {yesterday}?" reads to me as "Can you help me yesterday?", but that's just a nonsense sentence and an odd choice for an example. The word for "help" is also misspelled, but presumably that would get corrected. An…
Hey, thank you for your input! I definitely have to improve the example texts and make sure that the way the tool should be used is better understood!
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#14It seems that my GPT credits have been deplated, thus the error :) Sorry about that! I decided that if I do ran out, I will continue the development - showing that is has popularity!
In the meantime, I am at work, so I don't think I can add the rate limiting now... but thank you for everyone for the input!
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#15This is really cool! I've done a lot of research into LLM translation for my product[0], and I'm currently working on a deep translation service that provides reliably human-level translations. I don't know what model you're using, but GPT-4.1 is probably the best for your use case - it's in the top few % for nearly every language, and has a low standard deviation, while also being relatively low latency and low cost…
Thank you so much for the suggestion! I'll later also check out your app!
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#16Tried it with some Dutch, only getting "Unable to process correction" errors. Good idea but seems it need a bit more error handling.
Hey yeah, I have ran out of API credits due to popular demand! Sorry that you couldn't try it this time :(
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#17Also, yes the TTS doesn't work yet - I decided to share the MVP first before adding my Google billing account :P
I got an error. Is it working now?
For this MVP, I decided I will not add it yet - I just wanted to grasp how interesting people would think it is :)
I will however soon add it, joined with rate limiting!
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#18In the example text hjelmpe is not a word in Danish.
Haha, nope, that's just a genuine typo! :D Good catch!
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#19Really good idea.
I also really like the name.
Maybe add a language selector such that the AI has a better context of what language the user is interested in.
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#20Really good idea. I also really like the name. Maybe add a language selector such that the AI has a better context of what language the user is interested in.
Thank you! Yes, I think that would be the best really, so the AI has an easier time.