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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 k
by lakySK 3y ago
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 :)
- gus_massa 3y agoWhy Italian? What is Slow Italian? [Hi from Argentina!]
- lakySK 3y agoBecause I’m learning Italian and need it slow and in simple words & sentences. There are a bunch of podcasts that are called along the lines of News in Slow Italian, Stories in Slow Italian, etc that are targeted to the language learners. So just taking a fun twist on that :) Can be done for any language though. And I’m sure the prompt can be tuned for different levels of difficulty.
- ageitgey 3y agoWould be really cool in Spanish!
- lakySK 3y agoOk, let me try and generate one episode for you when I get home. Curious to hear what you think afterwards :)
- asveikau 3y agoI'm guessing choosing a regional variety of Spanish to use could be fraught.
- 35mm 3y agoMadrid seems pretty safe
- anthk 3y agoNo, thanks, "Madrid" as in "Madrith", nope. Better the Castillian one.
- ricardobayes 3y agoI'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. These are completely different languages on their own, and interestingly, in the case of Basque, not even in the same family of languages.
- asveikau 3y agoEven 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.
- higgins 3y agoi too would love to listen to a Mexican Spanish version
- dotcoma 3y agoI would love Spanish from Salamanca, Spain — which is supposed to be the gold standard.
- lakySK 3y agoGot 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 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853
- lakySK 3y agoGot 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 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853
- 35mm 3y agoYep Spanish Spanish (Madrid) please!
- lakySK 3y agoOne 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 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853
- 35mm 3y agoPerfect, thank you. Really impressed by the quality of the voice. Would love it if there was a way to connect to anki to start learning vocabulary based on the content of the episode.
- lakySK 3y agoGot a spanish episode generated. Let me know what you think :) https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853
- scotty79 3y agoI'd really love to hear Portuguese. What else did you do to immerse yourself in the language you are learning? I have trouble to even force youtube to give me content in Portuguese.
- thiagoeh 3y agoTake a look in the content backlog from Fabio Akita YouTube channel. Mostly of it is related to software development https://www.youtube.com/@Akitando https://www.youtube.com/@Akitando
- scotty79 3y agoThank you. Subscribing to specific Portuguese creators seems like a good idea.
- lakySK 3y agoI can try and get a Portuguese episode generated for you later today or tomorrow. It’s really tough to find such content indeed. I’ve found Netflix shows in Italian and some Italian podcasts and music on Spotify. One thing that also helps is to find a subreddit focused on learning the language (like r/italianlearning). When I searched the subreddit for books / movies / podcasts / youtubers, I found a lot of fun stuff. Many are not targeted for language learners though, so are a hit tough to follow. And the ones targeted to language learners are often quite generic and not that entertaining. Hence, this effort.
- scotty79 3y agoThank you! I am at the stage when I know too little to really appreciate the content. I'm just happy to recognize some words and get a general vibe of what's being talked about. I'm mostly looking for pleasent voices that speak clearly about things I'm not totally uniterested about.
- lakySK 3y agoA Portuguese episode is up and running now. Let me know what you think! https://twitter.com/LinguallyAI/status/1662570120684662784 https://twitter.com/LinguallyAI/status/1662570120684662784
- CamelRocketFish 3y agoThis is great! I didn’t see an option to slow the playback down to 0.5 as 1.0 is still fast for a beginner.
- lakySK 3y agoHm, good point. Perhaps I need to use a different podcast platform for that. Might look into that! Are you learning Italian as well? What have you tried so far?
- CamelRocketFish 3y agoYep I’m also a beginner but I haven’t found anything similar to this project. In terms of learning materials I found classes that follow the CEFR system (A1, A2, B1 etc) have been more helpful than Duolingo and also this free resource https://www.languagetransfer.org/ https://www.languagetransfer.org/
- lakySK 3y agoHeard great things on Language Transfer and started listening to it. I've mostly been doing Duolingo, recently some tutored classes on Preply. Trying to get to a level where I can converse with my Italian partner. And I think GPT has tremendous potential for this. Seen a few projects exploring this besides mine. Can't wait to see where it goes. It would be a shame if we can't figure out some great ways to use the new generative AI algos for education!
- CamelRocketFish 3y agoAgreed! Especially how easy it would be to have a bot that is aware of your vocabulary level and slowly introduces more vocabulary the more you interact with it.
- lakySK 3y agoIf you want, DM me on https://twitter.com/LukasPlatinsky https://twitter.com/LukasPlatinsky and I can send you a link to try a POC for a language-learning text adventure game. The main concept is to tell a story through conversations with NPC chatbots. Would be curious to hear feedback or any suggestions on how it could be graded to increase the complexity of the language over time. It's briefly mentioned on the site as well: https://hn.lingually.ai/#two https://hn.lingually.ai/#two
- hugs 3y agoI would love this for French. How do you want to handle modifying the code for other languages on GitHub? A new separate project fork per language, or a pull request to the current one? Slightly problematic that "Italian" is in the top level project name if it's going to be configurable for other languages. Also, add a tip jar somewhere so we can chip in!
- lakySK 3y agoGood question! Haven't thought that far ahead :D I'd be happy to rebrand it if there's interest. The main issue is that generating an episode is around $3 roughly (~$1 on GPT4 APU, ~$2 on text-to-speech). So doing a daily episode in multiple languages might be a bit costly. But if there's enough interest, I might be happy to fund it to get it going for a bit and see how it ends.
- hugs 3y agoFor the free sample, maybe run it once a week on Sunday? (But gate the daily feed behind a paywall?) Either way, I'd be happy to fund a few weeks of a French version right now!
- lakySK 3y agoThose are not bad ideas and suggestions at all! Thanks! Let me see if I can get a French episode generated for you today or tomorrow and if you like it, I'm happy to send some more your way :) What is your level of French?
- hugs 3y agoI'm A1 in French and got there primarily with Duolingo, a little Pimsleur... and lots of beginner audiobooks. Also a fan of RFI's "Easy French Newspaper" daily podcast, but yeah, it would be so much more interesting to have a tech-focused version of the concept. On that note, another suggestion: Offering a mobile-friendly readable transcript to go along with the audio. (RFI does this.) Reading along with the audio is my preferred way to "listen" to French audiobooks. Also, presenting the transcript in a readable form is another way to gate content behind a log in and/or upsell. Of course, yeah, would rather it all be free, but your costs are real!
- user7894635 3y agoWould love to hear Russian! Been working on it for awhile but similarly struggle to converse
- hyperkewb 3y agosame here.
- lakySK 3y agoAlright, I can definitely try generating that. So far I've got requests for Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Russian then.
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- tehrob 3y agoEuropean Portuguese from Portugal!
- lakySK 3y agoPortuguese is out there, check it out: https://twitter.com/LinguallyAI/status/1662570120684662784 https://twitter.com/LinguallyAI/status/1662570120684662784
- misiti3780 3y agoAnche io vorrei lo spagnolo!
- mattnewton 3y agoI don't know the state of text-to-speech for Mandarin Chinese but I would definitely listen to that if it's as good as this seems to be for Italian.
- lakySK 3y agoOh, that's a great question! I'd be curious. GPT can do decent Mandarin from what I heard from my friends testing things for me. Haven't looked into text-to-speech yet though.
- KerrickStaley 3y agoI would potentially pay for this in Mandarin, although I'd be wary of the quality vs human-produced sources. I often practice by reading sites like https://cn.wsj.com/ https://cn.wsj.com/, https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad, https://cn.nytimes.com/ https://cn.nytimes.com/, or https://big5.ftchinese.com/ https://big5.ftchinese.com/. These are all text news sites so they help with reading comprehension and grammar but not at all with listening. I'm not aware of any similar audio sources, especially not ones that use professional-level language but slow it down so it's accessible to language learners. So you'd be in a unique niche.
- joeatwork 3y agoThis one, in Italian, is really exciting! Thank you so much for making it!
- marcyb5st 3y agoAs 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 includes the word "immergervi" (immerse yourselves). The voice puts the accent on the 2nd "e", while it should be on the first one. Anyway, great tool. And I would help to chime in for different languages (trying to improve my Spanish). Put a tip jar somewhere as others suggested :)
- lakySK 3y agoGot a spanish episode generated. Let me know what you think :) https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853
- marcyb5st 3y agoThis is also great! Thank you. I can't offer in depth feedback on the text-to-speech as I am also learning Spanish, but definitely enjoyable and understandable! Also the technical jargon in Spanish is new to me, so I listened to at least few words I didn't hear yet!
- tlamponi 3y agoNot directly related to this, but what about a Firefox extension for LinguallyAI? I know that the Firefox user base sadly is relatively small nowadays, but maybe you're already using only the cross-browser WebExtensions API, so it might not be _that_ much extra work.
- maury91 3y agoI would like to see Lithuanian
- shankr 3y agoGerman please. Might help me improve my German.
- alexkowalenko 3y agoFrench, en français!
- 35mm 3y agoEspañol por favor!
- huhtenberg 3y agoFrench! Would love to have this in French. Between Italian, German, Spanish and French I find it's the most difficult language to parse by ear. The lack of pauses between words, the omnipresent en and y, their numerous contracted forms and generally speaking as if they are being charged by the millisecond makes it for an extremely frustrating experience sometimes.
- ricardobayes 3y agoSpanish please :)
- lakySK 3y agoGot a spanish episode generated. Sending your way. Let me know what you think :) https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2196522/12927853
- waterpowder 3y agoVietnamese with a northern accent please :D
- martopix 3y agoI would love Swahili, I've been looking for a simple and short Swahili podcast that is not on religious topics and that's not easy, I could only find the Swahili news of the Japanese national radio (lol). And yes, ChatGPT speaks Swahili well.
- rolandog 3y agoFor me, Dutch, as I'm still learning it!
- federicotdn 3y agoGerman would be amazing!
- mattkohl 3y agoThis is great!!! Would it be possible to provide an English translation of the Italian transcription? Seeing them side by side would be enormously helpful.
- maguirre 3y agoI have been learning Italiano for the past couple of years. This is awesome thank you