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Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by lakySK on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:17PM (#36077058)
Those are not bad ideas and suggestions at all! Thanks!

Let me see if I can get a French episode generated for you today or tomorrow and if you like it, I'm happy to send some more your way :)

What is your level of French?

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News in Slow Italian - AI-generated podca... by hugs on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:30PM (#36077212)
I'm A1 in French and got there primarily with Duolingo, a little Pimsleur... and lots of beginner audiobooks. Also a fan of RFI's "Easy French Newspaper" daily podcast, but yeah, it would be so much more interesting to have a tech-focused version of the concept.

On that note, another suggestion: Offering a mobile-friendly readable transcript to go along with a the audio. (RFI does this.) Reading along with the the audio is my preferred way to "listen" to French audiobooks.

Also, presenting the transcript in a readable form is another way to gate content behind a log in and/or upsell. Of course, yeah, would rather it all be free, but your costs are real!

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