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I've been meaning to brush up on Spanish and the app worked great to just hop in! The best part about using GPT is being able to talk about whatever is on your mind.

I noticed the transcription APIs clean up my mistakes (which is good for the transcript) but I wonder if there is a way to show the raw and corrected transcript to help guide corrections? Either way, it's already useful as is, looking forward to using it more.



Thanks for the comment and glad it's useful! Agreed - I love the flexibility to talk to it like it's almost just another human, but with vast knowledge. Okay - that makes sense - I can look into adding some more of the raw transcript. Thanks for the feedback.


Happy to help! To give some context: there was a GPT prompt which was something like "Act as a language tutor. I'll have a conversation with you, and you reply back. If I make a grammar mistake, keep the conversation going, but put the correction in a parenthetical statement."

I was using that for a bit, but typing in another language was enough friction (vs. speaking) that I didn't use it that much.

For this, audio is perfect -- all I need is the gentle reminders about what to fix, and why. GPT could probably have a parenthetical part in the official transcript too.

Anyway, hope that helps give context.


Agreed. There's a huge chasm between being able to read/write and being able to speak. Speaking is just more fun as well imo. I'll have a think about ways that it could provide some qualitative feedback. Thanks again


I'll second wishing I could see the raw transcript vs the cleaned up version (perhaps vertically over one another in different colors?), and also how fantastically magical it is at allowing me to come right in and converse naturally.

Great job!


You could do something two pass and collect forced alignment confidence scores similar to what is fine with whisperx. The OP would need to incorporate that into the app but it’s a pretty standard approach.


Thanks - I'll look into this




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