Ask HN: Conversational AI to Learn a Language

It uses OpenAI's realtime API to simulate either a tutoring session (the speaker will revert to English to help you) or a first date or business meeting (the speaker will always speak the target language)

You can see the AI's transcriptions but not your own, limitation of the current OpenAI API but definitely something I can fix.

The prompts are like this: https://gist.github.com/jc4p/d8b9d121425ec191d62602d8720eeed... and the rest of it is a Nextjs app wrapped around the WebRTC connection.

I'm not fully in love with the app so I'd love any feedback or hearing if it works well for you -- It doesn't have a lot of features yet (including saving context) and if you bump into the time limit just open it up in incognito to keep going.

Curious because I’m trying to learn Romanian, and since it’s a less common language there are fewer resources available. So I wasn’t sure if you added Dutch with minimal amount of effort following the poster’s request.

That said, I gave your app a try with Spanish and it looks pretty good! But I didn’t see a Help page to clarify how I’m “supposed” to interact. Eg I tried saying in English “I don’t understand” (even though I know how to say that in Spanish) and it responded in Spanish which may be hard for absolute beginners. Although full immersion is much better way to learn.

I can try playing around more with it to give you some feedback.