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456 points ph4evers | 2 comments | 01 Apr 25 05:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.429s | source

I've been working on a little side project that combines Duolingo-like listening comprehension exercises with real content .

Every video is transcribed to get much better transcripts than the closed captions. I filter on high quality transcripts, and afterwards a LLM selects only plausible segments for the exercises. This seems to work well for quality control and seems to be reliable enough for these short exercises.

Would love your thoughts!

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dataengineer56 ◴[01 Apr 25 08:54 UTC] No.43544384[source]▶
The English icon has the Union Jack flag rather than the US flag, so it automatically elevates the service above Duolingo for me.
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1. hoseyor ◴[01 Apr 25 11:35 UTC] No.43545537[source]▶
Rather ironic, considering that it’s a flag to indicate personal union of ownership of subjects and lands by the Scottish king who inherited the subjects and lands of England, but you prefer it to be the icon for the language of the state of England, a country in which its own language is more or less indecipherable in many places due to accents, dialects, and degeneration and creolization.

You would be far more likely to understand any given English speaking person in the USA than in England. It should really be called American at this point.

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2. mavus ◴[01 Apr 25 11:54 UTC] No.43545669[source]▶
> accents, dialects, and degeneration and creolization. There are just as many accents and dialects of English in the Americas as there are in Britain. Even your term "creolization" comes from Louisiana. It's a matter of perspective and something that all language learners will have the face, the difference between 'standard' English/Spanish/German and regional variations both within it's originating country and from abroad.