My first language is Afrikaans, which is a somewhat niche language and hard to find teachers/conversation buddies outside South Africa. (I live in USA now)
I've been using Gemini to live chat in Afrikaans and do impromptu Afrikaans grammar lessons during my solo drives around town. It is phenomenal at speaking the language - like, it really shocks my family members when they hear it.
This is probably the most joy I get from any of my usages of LLMs/AIs. It's been really, really nice getting to speak my language regularly again. =)
So, I'm excited about this release and live chat getting better. I also hope the other frontier labs pick up niche languages like this as well so that I have more options.
Lekker man. Although I speak it often, I could use an LLM to help me progress as I've been stuck at my current level for about a year and typing it is not something I enjoy.
I find no greater joy than listening to a TTS model say Poes (Google translate is one of the funnier ones to make swear). Reminds me of being 14 lol.
jeanbza · · focus · HN ↗
I've been using Gemini to live chat in Afrikaans and do impromptu Afrikaans grammar lessons during my solo drives around town. It is phenomenal at speaking the language - like, it really shocks my family members when they hear it.
This is probably the most joy I get from any of my usages of LLMs/AIs. It's been really, really nice getting to speak my language regularly again. =)
So, I'm excited about this release and live chat getting better. I also hope the other frontier labs pick up niche languages like this as well so that I have more options.
NorthSouthNorth · · focus · HN ↗
I find no greater joy than listening to a TTS model say Poes (Google translate is one of the funnier ones to make swear). Reminds me of being 14 lol.