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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Posted about Gliglish.com a few months back which does the same thing.
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Have you thought about adding speech synthesis to it? For languages like such as English and French, with very opaque spelling, this sounds critical.
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Hey, thanks! How can I contacter toi ?
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Yes, one step at a time :) Definitely high on the list, pronunciation is very dear to my heart.
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Hey, Could you please send me an email on how you did it at hello@gliglish.com ? I take this seriously.
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
It's the default model from the OpenAI API endpoint.
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
There's a translation button. Should I make it more prominent? I'll also add voice and translations to the suggestions provided on every screen. It's also a matter of learning style... I don't speak a word of Portuguese
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Cool project! I always meant to do something like this but never got around to playing with the tech. r/languagelearning/ does not currently accept anything relating to AI. Here's the messages I got: Automatically: > Thank
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Hey! Thanks for the balanced feedback, all totally valid. (1) I'm self-directed in my learning and always knew what I wanted my teachers to do, but everyone's different. Definitely going to add more choice of content (and not just
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
I've seen people terrified at the idea of speaking (hell, I experienced it myself decades ago.) It's not always even a matter of level. People with good grammar and a lot of vocabulary will have zero ease speaking for lack of prac
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Yes, definitely want to add something in those lines, where the AI detects your level and adapts in more than one way.
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Hey, thanks for the input and happy to have a healthy debate! I'm a bit confused though: > all the input I got was some lines of text Didn't you hear the audio? Or what else were you expecting? I've experimented with the l
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
I should have disabled 'Multilingual speech recognition' by default. Lesson learned.
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Thank you for the encouragements! > you're probably in need of content that users will feel compelled to share on social media and other places That's a very good point. > It was slow to send the recording then provide a res
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Did you try with multilingual speech recognition turned off?
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
It does and that's indeed Whisper I'm currently using. I do have mixed feelings about it: - On the one hand, it performs well in so many cases… and having multilingual support built-in is great! - On the other hand: there's a
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
I learned for foreign languages and was obviously a beginner in each. Not sure what hating on 'AI' and 'scalable' (your word by the way, not mine) accomplishes.
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
And, well… "glass half-empty or glass half-full?" Speech recognition is far from perfect but even then it's incredibly useful. It CAN be infuriating (or downright hilarious). Hell, it's infuriating when occasionally a (h
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Thank you! I've had a few people request an option to disable suggestions but you're the first to present the use case, which is super useful to me! I'll add an option to minimize them. > is text-to-speech on the roadmap?
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Thank you! Feels good to hear. Tried to keep it simple, how I like to use sites, not pesky. Gotta look into language schools, you're right… Someone suggested doing a deal with the Canadian government because everything is bilingual the
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
It's Whisper as well and should behave the exact same way. Are you in the same setting (mic, ambient noise)?
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Hey! Thanks for the feedback! > I think there are a few places where you need to fine tune your prompts, at least for Korean language learning Can you expand on this one, please? > I also wish there was a drill mode that is less open
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Hey, thanks! :) Will add Japanese and Chinese momentarily. Which variation of Arabic would you want to learn? You make a good point. I might need to hire a salesperson or do a business deal for this.
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
@gorpomon and @jjkeddo199 Great talking points! I thought about this a lot, but still don't have a good answer: how easy should it be to translate? - If you make it too easy, like jjkeddo199 pointed out you don't learn. e.g. it&
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Thank you for the feedback. How do you feel about your accent? Did you try with multilingual speech recognition off?
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Thanks. Is it better with multilingual speech recognition turned off? If you give me the convo uuid I can have a look, too. Hopefully language teachers won't be gone, but it definitely will change the industry. It's a bit like the
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Thank you for the report. Multilingual speech recognition is proving both a curse and a blessing. I will: 1. Turn it off by default 2. Ask people for their native and target language so as to detect when things go wrong. In which case, I&#x
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Thank you . A friend's been asking for Mandarin for a while, time to deliver on my promise to add it! Will try to get it ready within 24 hours of posting this. > And the limitations of its speech recognition are actually a feature -
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by fabiensnauwaert 3y ago
Did you try disabling multilingual speech recognition? Speech recognition is multilingual by default, which means you can ask a question in any language. The tradeoff is that your pronunciation may be misunderstood at times. e.g. English sp

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