In my own language
learning I've had trouble finding good ways to practice actually speaking. So,
I made a website for practicing speaking in a fun way. While watching any video
from YouTube or your computer, the system will transcribe and translate what
you say and make a record of it for later practice.
If you do spaced
repetition, there's also an Anki addon that allows you to sync cards from the
site to an Anki deck.
The site is still
pretty early in development, so there are sure to be bugs and missing features,
but I would love to hear what you all think!
@rfindley I’d be happy to talk about the research. What would you like to know? At the moment, the project is mostly exploratory, so I just want to see whether it’s something that people want to use, and what aspects are important. But, there are some cool language learning things we could study if enough people use it, which I could chat more about if you’re interested.
As for the transcription, I’m currently just using the speech recognition built into some web browsers. I’ve tried some other recognition engines, but the quality isn’t really any different and this way we don’t need to pay for each transcription.
