I'm stunned by how well this works for Japanese, the only language I think I'm good enough at to judge the AI's responses.
The speech recognition is flawless as far as I can tell. The AI occasionally gets itself into a loop of repeating my question or itself, but I think this has been a problem with a lot of chatbots. The only glaring errors I've seen so far are these kinds of AI-specific issues, like forgetting context, getting geographical facts wrong, etc.
>こんにちは。今日はどちらへお出かけですか？ (Hello. Where are you headed?)
京都に行きます. (I'm going to Kyoto)
>素晴らしい都市ですね。行ったことはありますか？ (It's a great city. Have you been?)
いや初めてです。お勧めの場所はありますか？. (Nope, it's my first time. Any places you suggest?)
>京都は歴史のある美しい都市です。たくさんのお寺や神社を訪れることができます。(Kyoto is a beautiful city with history. You can visit plenty of temples and shrines.)
そうですね。清水寺とか聞いたことがある。行きたいんだ. (True. I've heard of like, Kiyomizudera, and I want to go.)
>清水寺は必見です！とても人気のあるお寺で、市内を一望できるんですよ(Kiyomizudera is a must-see! It's a very popular temple, and you can see the whole area at once)
Not only does it know about Kyoto, but it knows about a specific temple (picked it up via speech recognition too). Translations are rough and by me, not quazel.
This could be a real game changer if the other languages are this good.
Additionally, if you register an account then you get access to the "Scene builder" which lets you set up a situation to start the conversation in. I have found that you can redirect any conversation to pretty much anything, but I thought it was a cool idea that many people here averse to account-making might have missed.
Can't say I relate unfortunately, I had two conversations in Japanese and both of them were kinda weird. In the first one it even misunderstood my name and repeated it back at me (incorrectly), it looked like some Google translate mistranslation.
In another one it asked me if it was okay to sit next to me and I replied with いや、遠慮しときます (which was marked as a "grammar mistake") and the AI just said ありがとうございます and "sat down" next to me nonetheless.
So far I'm not impressed, it looks like a chatbot piped through Google translate.
If it's that good with Japanese, I'd love to see it support Korean! Keeping up conversational practice is very tough as a non-native speaking not living in Korea anymore. So having an AI that I can bother at my convenience would be amazing.
korean would be great, as it's a language i've tried learning in the past. i sometimes watch k-dramas and can understand about 20-30%, but would love to practice at my leisure so that i can understand more without reading the subtitles constantly.
i've watched enough wuxia/xianxia now to recognize about 10% of the mandarin words/phrases, but have almost no understanding of the grammar. the real key to learning seems to be (going through the often frustrating process of) communicating in real time, not just reading and listening.
The speech recognition is flawless as far as I can tell. The AI occasionally gets itself into a loop of repeating my question or itself, but I think this has been a problem with a lot of chatbots. The only glaring errors I've seen so far are these kinds of AI-specific issues, like forgetting context, getting geographical facts wrong, etc.
>こんにちは。今日はどちらへお出かけですか？ (Hello. Where are you headed?)
京都に行きます. (I'm going to Kyoto)
>素晴らしい都市ですね。行ったことはありますか？ (It's a great city. Have you been?)
いや初めてです。お勧めの場所はありますか？. (Nope, it's my first time. Any places you suggest?)
>京都は歴史のある美しい都市です。たくさんのお寺や神社を訪れることができます。(Kyoto is a beautiful city with history. You can visit plenty of temples and shrines.)
そうですね。清水寺とか聞いたことがある。行きたいんだ. (True. I've heard of like, Kiyomizudera, and I want to go.)
>清水寺は必見です！とても人気のあるお寺で、市内を一望できるんですよ(Kiyomizudera is a must-see! It's a very popular temple, and you can see the whole area at once)
Not only does it know about Kyoto, but it knows about a specific temple (picked it up via speech recognition too). Translations are rough and by me, not quazel.
This could be a real game changer if the other languages are this good.
Additionally, if you register an account then you get access to the "Scene builder" which lets you set up a situation to start the conversation in. I have found that you can redirect any conversation to pretty much anything, but I thought it was a cool idea that many people here averse to account-making might have missed.