Hadjimina

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by Hadjimina 3y ago
The thing that really made the difference for us was the traction we got through the original launch HN post.
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by Hadjimina 3y ago
Yep, I agree that could be made clearer.
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by Hadjimina 3y ago
even though the AI might know some of that language, it will probably not be familiar enough to basically never make a mistake. Another problem is that speech recognition, Text to speech and the translator also need to work in that language
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Launch HN: Univerbal (YC W23) – Language learning with a conversational AI tutor
145 points by Hadjimina 3y ago|136 comments
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Hi, that's really cool. We are building something similar over at ww.quazel.com we though of doing another Hacker News launch today as well, but I guess we're going to postpone that for a bit :)
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Maybe we can have a chat? Would be cool. philipp@quazel.com
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Yup english is top of at the top of the to-do list. We use some APIs from a few different big players. One that I want to highligh which is waayy better than the rest is Microsoft speech to text, which not only recognized what you say but c
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
What device did you use and how was your internet connection? Still super early days so innefficiency in some parts of the code are to be expected. (TBH I am surprised that it still more or less works and did not completely crash)
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Thanks we really appreciate it!
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
I'll take this as an A+ this . Joking aside, we really are just getting started and there are still kinks to iron out. In our core team we speak about 5 languages well enough to judge the quality of the conversations, but the others ar
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Yeah it's highly dependent on the language right now
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
- Noted - Noted - Not 100% sure what you mean with that. So, you want to automatically speak a sentence that you enter in translator? The normal messages you get from the AI, should already be spoken automatically (though I had to implement
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Hi, so most of us are based in Zurich, but the project originally started while I was writing my master's thesis at UC Berkeley. Concreteley we are: Philipp (that's me, technical, https://www.linkedin.com/in/p
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
I really like this. Especially with the repetitions and automatically having the TTS be slower for beginners.
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Hahah I have a super silly response for this one: It's simply because we have not gotten around to translate the UI and everything into other languages besides english. That's why we simple assume people know english, since they n
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
@Everyone: We are absoluteley stunned by your response. We have been working on this for a few months now and just posted it here on a whim not expecting much and are absoluteley blow away by your response. The bugs and crashes are somewhat
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
dope thanks!
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
this kiss of death sounds ominous... The strange thing was I posted it to HN about 30days ago and got like 1 upvote. Obviously a lot has change since then, but still. I think the reason people like it so much is because you can try it witho
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Yeah some languages work better than others...keep in mind this is the earliest usable version. Will definelty keep that in mind
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
we do have some plans but nothing finalised yet. We actually removed the stripe implementation because we want to publish it as a PWA on appstores. For pricing we would probably go the subscription route. An other idea we had was for an ad-
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
If y'all want to get in touch say hi at philipp@quazel.com
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
yeah I think, it's a problem with mixpanel...but only on Firefox for some reason .
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
I am literally sitting on the floor at the train station trying to fix the mic/loading bug, so bear with me here .
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
That's a good point. However, I think we have reached a point where AI text generation has come pretty far and will only continue to get better. Even if you pick up one or two mistakes the A.I. makes but are otherwise fluent, isn'
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Looking into it right now.
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Yep we are super early and still have some bugs. Could you tell me what browser you were using? B.c. maybe you did not give the browser the permission to record stuff with the microphone and then things break.
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Yep, this is a highly requested feature..but as you can imagine a bit tricky. We are working on it. However, I am using it for Greek and I'm on an early A2 level...so I think if you are at that point you can probably get pretty far by
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
Arabic is very high on the list but suuupppeeer tricky...
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
if you are serious about this (which would be dope), send an email to philipp@quazel.com
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by Hadjimina 4y ago
So in the background we are checking if the stuff you are talking about is "risky". If that is detected, the conversation partner will just answer with something like "hmmm I don't feel comfortable talking about that&quo

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