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solarbirdThe only thing I don't like about duolingo isn't even its fault.
Voice recognition doesn't work well with me. I don't know why. Humans have no problems with how I speak, but voice recognition - in ANY language, including my native language - most certainly does.
So of course duolingo uses it extensively, and for good reason. But holy shit the frustration factor.
It's not completely unusable. I mean, voice recognition in general is much better than it used to be, right? Remember Dragon Dictation, in the late 90s/early 2000s? I read it the preamble of the Constitution and it got three (3) words right.
Three.
This is better. I may have to shout individual syllables at it one at a time sometimes to get it to register when it's being spicy for some reason, but that usually - usually gets through.
Not great for language pronunciation though, kind of defeats the point :/
One thing I've definitely identified is that something about how I say D sounds is from some other planet. Sometimes I have to make it two syllables like DEEEE-UHHH. That usually works. That's not how you say things like d'accord but otherwise... often... it won't hear it.
When I see a sentence with a bunch of Ds appear I'm just like "well... fuck." Here we go.
So anyway, it was particularly spicy today so I'm writing about it. Goddamn.
eta: "B" sounds also. It absolutely cannot hear me say "ぼく." Just enraging. I BRIEFLY LIVED IN JAPAN. I LITERALLY HAD PEOPLE THINK FROM MY VOICE THAT I WAS JAPANESE AND FLIPPED OUT WHEN THEY TURNED AROUND TO FACE ME AND I WASN'T. I CAN FUCKING WELL SAY BOKU.
But it can't hear me say it.
Voice recognition doesn't work well with me. I don't know why. Humans have no problems with how I speak, but voice recognition - in ANY language, including my native language - most certainly does.
So of course duolingo uses it extensively, and for good reason. But holy shit the frustration factor.
It's not completely unusable. I mean, voice recognition in general is much better than it used to be, right? Remember Dragon Dictation, in the late 90s/early 2000s? I read it the preamble of the Constitution and it got three (3) words right.
Three.
This is better. I may have to shout individual syllables at it one at a time sometimes to get it to register when it's being spicy for some reason, but that usually - usually gets through.
Not great for language pronunciation though, kind of defeats the point :/
One thing I've definitely identified is that something about how I say D sounds is from some other planet. Sometimes I have to make it two syllables like DEEEE-UHHH. That usually works. That's not how you say things like d'accord but otherwise... often... it won't hear it.
When I see a sentence with a bunch of Ds appear I'm just like "well... fuck." Here we go.
So anyway, it was particularly spicy today so I'm writing about it. Goddamn.
eta: "B" sounds also. It absolutely cannot hear me say "ぼく." Just enraging. I BRIEFLY LIVED IN JAPAN. I LITERALLY HAD PEOPLE THINK FROM MY VOICE THAT I WAS JAPANESE AND FLIPPED OUT WHEN THEY TURNED AROUND TO FACE ME AND I WASN'T. I CAN FUCKING WELL SAY BOKU.
But it can't hear me say it.
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Date: 2022-08-16 11:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-17 11:25 pm (UTC)(Today's adventure was "deux" in a sentence. Absolutely could. not. hear. it.)
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Date: 2022-08-17 03:56 pm (UTC)Now I'm remembering the first of the new Star Trek movies where Chekov had to deliberately speak without his accent to ID himself. :-)
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Date: 2022-08-17 11:26 pm (UTC)(Today's adventure was "deux" in a sentence. It absolutely could. not. hear. it.)