Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo

Re:Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo by godelski on Monday January 27, 2020 @09:16PM (#22165817)

Okay, I did. Now I have to say that I do not find this helpful. The audio is very synthetic and has audio distortions. 三 had a weird glitch in it. Have you tried using one of Bidu's models?

Also, in counter part to Duolinguo, I suggest at checking out Hello Chinese, and using that as the metric to beat (it is popular among Mandarin learners).

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Re:Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of Duolingo by nmfisher on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @12:44AM (#22166763)

Thanks for taking the time out to provide your feedback, it's always very helpful.

You're right, there are a few artifacts in the audio. Most of these are due to generating speech at a slower cadence than "natural".

Native/enunciated recorded speech would probably be better for this specific purpose, but not necessarily practical for the larger app.

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