PrettyPolly

PrettyPolly

Learn a language quickly by practicing speaking with AI

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The fastest way to learn a language is to speak it from Day 1. With PrettyPolly, you can speak any of 36 languages whenever you want. You can create custom topics and track your progress using the fluency score, as well as practice your prounciation with the pronunciation scorer.
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Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
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Hi guys, Hope you're well. I made PrettyPolly after many years of trying to learn languages. I studied French for 5 years at school yet - when I went to France - I couldn't speak to anyone. I assumed that I was just bad at languages. Later in life I travelled with some French friends. I spoke to them in broken French at first but, by the end, I was able to chat to them fairly comfortably (and was even able to joke around). I realized then that there's no substitute for speaking to natives regularly. The problem is that we can't go off travelling whenever we want to learn a language. It can also be expensive and time-consuming to organize calls with native speakers, or to get a private tutor. PrettyPolly lets you practice speaking with a human-like AI in any of 36 languages. You can create topics and scenarios to imitate any real-world scenarios you want to practice for. Some commonly used examples are: 1. Pretend you're interviewing me for a role as a software engineer 2. Pretend you're giving me an IELTS oral exam 3. Pretend you're giving me a tour of Rome 4. Play 20 questions with me! If you're a beginner at a language, speaking from Day 1 can be intimidating, so we've built in features to get you over the initial hump. You can click on any word to translate it, and if you're ever stuck for what to say, you can click the "Stuck, get a hint" button. This gives you an AI-generated hint for what to say next. You can practice your pronunciation for that phrase, and the app gives you a pronunciation score so you can keep repeating the phrase until you sound like a native. Finally, the app has something called the fluency score (out of 200). It is calculated using your pronunciation, the rate at which you speak and the number of unique words you use. This is great to help you track your progress over time. I would really appreciate any suggestions, questions or other feedback. Also, feel free to share any language-learning stories of yours :). Thanks, Chris
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@mayankkr Hey Mayank, thanks for the comment. Please do give it a spin and let me know whether it's useful for your French :)
Icarus
Qufro
@cwbuilds1 Congratulations on the launch, Chris! I've been using PrettyPolly's scenario feature - it's awesome, and keeps conversations interesting!
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@ic4ru5 Ah awesome - glad to hear it. There's a lot more we could do with the characters/scenarios, so if there's anything you don't like about it, let me know and we'll be working on it over the next couple of weeks. Thanks again!
Cameron
artickl
@cwbuilds1 congrats on the launch!
André J
DiffSense
Really cool! When will it analyse accent? 🙏
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@sentry_co Thanks man! It actually already does that. If you click the "Stuck, get a hint" button, you can do a pronunciation assessment and it will give you a score out of 100, so you can practice until you nail it. Then you can try saying that phrase in the main conversation. Also, your pronunciation is taken into account in the fluency score, which you can see if you scroll down on your profile. Do you think it could be useful if you get some pronunciation corrections in the main conversation?
André J
DiffSense
@cwbuilds1 I think more like. Practicing to gain a sort of tone. Accent. Like how a native English speak from UK or the US would speak. It's really hard for a lot of people to ditch their origin accent. Speaking with a British or US accent just adds that extra seriousness. People take you seriously etc. And how would one improve that? I think for me, I have a sort of hybrid us/uk accent. I think I gained it by a lot of exposure to audio books, and English tv from a young age. Also I worked abroad and travelled a lot. I think it could be trained as well. Like you get a sentence and you have to say it until you nail it and sound like a native speaker. and then you get another one and another one. and in the start you hear the teachers accent. and then your on your own later once you start nailing it. something like that.
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@sentry_co Ah sorry, I see what you mean. There's actually a brilliant app for this called BoldVoice (@anada_lakra1). My understanding is that it's excellent if you're already proficient in the language and trying to perfect your accent. I've added your problem to our list though so I'll have a think about what we can do in the future to help. Thanks again for trying it out!
André J
DiffSense
@anada_lakra1 @cwbuilds1 Yeah. The right solution built too early. If you build bold-voice with todays technology. it will be 10x. Thanks for the tip! Its always great to speak to founders, because they know the market from their own market research!
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@sentry_co Ah interesting. Cool, I can have a think about this and work out what we can do. Thanks so much for the feedback :)
Roman van Maaren
SongSens.ai
Congratulations on your launch. Very nice product! I would like to see more functions aimed towards newer language learners. The app seams to be targeting almost fluent speakers as of now. Also, I’m curious, what is the fluency score based on and how do you calculate it?
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@thisisroman Thanks for the comment Roman! That makes sense. Did you get a chance to try the hint button (with pronunciation help) and did you try translating by clicking any word? The aim of those is to make it easier for beginners to get started. If so, we'll think about new ways to make it easier for beginners. The fluency score is based on your pronunciation, the rate at which you speak and the number of unique words you use. We haven't published the full equation because we don't want people trying to game it. Thanks again for the comment, Chris
Roman van Maaren
SongSens.ai
@cwbuilds1 I did find those functions yes, very nicely implemented. My comment was more directed at the fact that it feels like you’re really being thrown into the deep. I’d love to see some personalisation based on experience and preferences. The fluency score is my favourite idea but I think the current implementation could use some work. The number is a very abstract stat and I would love to see something more fitting to the context of language learning. Keep up the good work!
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@thisisroman Ah that makes sense. There is something we can do here. On your profile there's a button that says 'Custom Topic'. What you can do is change the prompt to make the conversation incredibly basic. I can create one for you and put it in the 'Top Topics' section on the profile page if you'd like? That's a great point on the fluency score. I'll think about how we can tie it more closely to your ability in that language. Really appreciate the feedback
Razmik Badalyan
Tested for a few minutes and, I must say, this looks very promising! It's familiar with current events and flow of conversation seems quite natural. I'll need to spend more time with this to get a better view, but one thing that already caught my eye is the translation. Not sure for other language, but for Georgian is looks a bit off sometimes. And if I may I'd like to share with you some of my thoughts on how to use AI for language learning. https://medium.com/@razmikb/comp...
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@razmikb @razmik_badalyan1 Thanks for the kind words Razmik and for the feedback on translation. The problem was that it hasn't been passing the context of the phrase (which can obviously affect the meaning of the individual word). This will be fixed in the next version (going out next week). Awesome idea with comprehensible input generator. I'll give it a go this week. Thanks so much again and let me know if you have any more feedback on PrettyPolly. It'll be getting a large update around 18th April so I hope it helps you learn.
Razmik Badalyan
@cwbuilds1 Looking forward to the updates. I have checked quite a few AI based language learning tools, and yours, even on this early stage, looks very promising. I'll definitely follow up with more in depth feedback. English learning tools are something I'm interested professionally. My team and I work on making education more accessible, in Georgia, and world wide. One of the main obstacles to education accessibility is the language barrier.
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@razmik_badalyan1 Really appreciate it. Yeah - there are a lot of AI language-learning apps around and more popping up every month. Absolutely on the accessibility point with education. Learning English can also massively increase income for people in certain countries. It's such an important area and it feels like a shame that the best we have produced until now is Duolingo. Hopefully, we'll have a set of tools over the next 10 years that make world-class language learning accessible to everyone.
Aurelien
Sweego
💡 Bright idea
I've just tested the product and I love it. It's what I've been missing compared with other well-known apps that don't let you chat. One of the most interesting things I've been able to try out is to ask AI to correct my expressions each time she speaks, before continuing to ask me questions, which is a real plus. I'm looking forward to continuing my discovery of the product.
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@afovet Thanks so much Aurelien! That's awesome. You can also try creating a custom topic on your profile to get her to you on certain aspects. Please do let me know if you have any questions or suggestions and I'd really appreciate it :)
Paul
Qufro
I'm a life-long language failer! The problem is certainly that I never practice consistently. I've been trying PrettyPolly for a couple of weeks and I now have absolutely no excuse not to practice every day. It feels strange to be in a time where an AI is actually a very good substitute for a human, but here we are somehow! If I can stick to practicing daily there's no doubt at all that my Spanish will improve - it's up to me now I guess! Thanks for building Chris!
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@chronocube Hi Paul, thanks so much for your comment! Yes, being consistent is definitely one of the hardest parts of learning a new language if you aren't in a country which speaks that language. Thank you so much for the kind words! Hope it continues to help your Spanish. If you have any questions or suggestions after using it a bit, please do feel free to let me know :)
Samuel Sonning
Looks great! Had a funny conversation in Spanish about food. I can see myself using this. One thing I would like (maybe I just didnt find it?) is a way to stop the AI talking. E.g. she read me a really long recipe for Galician calamares, I pressed undo but she didn’t stop. Good luck with the launch!
Chris W
PrettyPolly
Maker
@samuel_sonning Hi Samuel, thanks for the comment and glad you liked it! If you want to interrupt the AI, you can just start holding the microphone button down and she (it?) will stop talking. The undo button will go back a couple of messages (in case you accidentally say something wrong and want to correct the record). Thanks so much again for trying it out. Let me know if there's ever anything I can do to help
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