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Mixed reviews so far. I've had one person say the Hebrew was brilliant, and one say that it was terrible. It seems to be slightly less accurate than English, but good enough for most purposes

Cool, thanks for getting back

Will look into it

Have made some changes now. Should be running as fast as it was yesterday, but let me know if any issues.

Yeah - I apologize for how slow it is right now. I didn't anticipate nearly this much traffic. I'm going to be making it faster and more robust over the next few days

Thanks!

Yep, sure. That's useful. Thanks again.

Thanks for the comment and thanks for the feedback! It's on the list of languages to add. If you'd like to get updates, feel free to sign up with a free account and you'll automatically be added to the mailing list.

Hey thanks for the feedback. I'll be honest with you, if reading and writing is what your goal is, then you'll get better results speaking to ChatGPT in the OpenAI chat interface. If your goal is to be able to speak it eventually, you'll need some sort of speech version.

Sure - it's a deliberate decision to get it to not correct you mid conversation, because that mimics real life. However, I'm looking at having a way for you to get some qualitative feedback alongside the fluency score after each conversation.

Great - glad to have you onboard and if you're signed up, you'll get the updates :)

Yeah, good point. I think the FAQs need a question on "How to chat with Polly," or something similar which will give examples of the type of prompts you can use, and that you can use your native language to help if you're struggling, like you suggest. Thanks for the feedback.

Awesome - glad you're finding it useful!

Thanks! Yes - lots of work to be done on the UX. A processing-style spinner is the top of my list to add this week.

I'll see what can be done about hints. Thanks for the feedback

Thanks for the comment! The main difference is the use of speech instead of text. At school, I could read/write in French, but then was absolutely lost speaking to French people. If you want to speak a language, you have to speak it.

The fluency score is also quite useful for tracking your progress. I tried to get ChatGPT to give a fluency score, but it simply couldn't do it so I had to build some software to create a fluency score using rate of speech and the number of unique words you use.

Thanks for using it! Glad it's been helpful. You get 15 free conversations per month when you sign up. If you want unlimited conversations per month, it's $4.50. Sound reasonable?

Got it. Will work out how to add this. Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks - yeah lots of UI/UX work to do. I've added Hungarian and Bulgarian to the list of languages. If you sign up, you'll get an email when they're added. Thanks again.

Thanks! Great - I'll put Slovenian on the list. Yes - you've been added to the mailing list which will inform you of things that will help you learn, including new languages. Thanks for signing up! You too!

Got it. Thanks for the feedback.

Got it, thanks!

Yes - Anki integration is one of the things I'm keen to do next. I'm convinced that any good language learning app needs spaced repitition.

Got it. Thinking of making it possible to control the mic by holding the space bar, although that wouldn't work for mobile obviously. What devices were you testing it on if you don't mind me asking?

Got it. Will learn about those and see what I can do.

Thanks for the kind words. That sounds like an interesting idea. Any chance you have a contact? Am UK-based so imagine it would be hard to get a meeting with the DoD from here. If so, I'd obviously be incredibly grateful, and here's my email: chris@prettypolly.app

Thanks again, Chris

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions. Will see what can be done.

Thanks for the kind words. Sure - anything you didn't like about the UX?

Yes, very good point - that seems very doable and useful

Yes, of course. I'll try to add this soon. Thanks for the input

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to add something like this

I wish it were that simple. There's also speech-to-text and text-to-speech to get working. But I've seen your comment above and added it to the language-add list. Thanks again for the feedback

Okay, yeah that does sound annoying. I'll enlarge it