Glisten 2.1 has big improvements to punctuation and sentence splitting. It pushes the speech-to-text results through an LLM, producing a much better transcript.
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Amazon has shut off the feed that allowed Delicious Library to look up items, unfortunately limiting the app to what users already have (or enter manually).
I wasn’t contacted about this.
I’ve pulled it from the Mac App Store and shut down the website so nobody accidentally buys a non-functional app.
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If you are learning to speak a language, give the new ChatGPT voice mode a try. The new features make conversational practice very doable. I chat with it while walking the dog. You can interrupt and pause before responding, which were problems in the past. This is one area where AI can make a big difference, because “truth” is not very important. #languagelearning https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/113398218271967231
Glisten 2: Going Beyond Learning to Teaching
https://www.glisten.ist/blog/glisten-2-going-beyond-learning-to-teaching
Glisten 2.0 is ready to test!
Every language student’s favorite podcast player (iPhone) is growing up, with improved transcriptions from OpenAI’s Whisper, inline translations, guided workouts which read translations aloud, new podcast categories (news, stories, popular), and much more.
If you haven’t tried it, or gave up, now is the time to give it a shot!
TestFlight is public: https://testflight.apple.com/join/5hvoRNHb
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What language learning apps have you had good experiences with?
– What language(s) did you study?
– Optional: How did you use it? Exclusively or as a complement to other learning approaches?
Glisten 1.5 is now available in the Mac App Store! We’ve also updated the iPad app with a sidebar, and created a new web site. https://glisten.ist
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Glisten language player is coming to macOS! If you want to help beta test, use the Test Flight link here. This also works for iPhone and iPad.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/5hvoRNHb
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New blog post about Augmented Listening in language learning.
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@ratkins @brandonhorst @drewmccormack Personally, I think I would prefer it to just tell me what I did wrong. Eg “you said ‘lo que quiere”, but it should have been “la que quiere” because “mesa” is feminine. In other words, it wouldn’t repeat what I do well. But either option would be nice.
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Quite happy with how the mac version of Glisten is coming along. In the end, I've opted to use SwiftUI with Catalyst with the “Optimized for Mac" variant. This gives something that is not radically different to other platforms, and feels quite nice on the Mac.
This feels like the Goldilocks choice: the scaled-iPad variant of Catalyst didn't feel as nice on the Mac, and the Mac-native version would have needed a heap of work to get it looking OK.
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@brandonhorst @glisten This is my thinking exactly! What we can say about LLMs is that they are good at stringing together words, because that is what they are designed for. When you learn a language, it doesn't matter much if something is true, just that the language is largely correct. There really is no better application of LLMs than language learning.
Glisten, the language listening app, is available for half price via the Indie App Sales promotion today and tomorrow, along with nearly 300 apps from indie developers.
Open this link on iOS to get the deal
https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6447008785&code=INDIE
I've been practicing my Spanish by talking to ChatGPT via the iPhone app. It works well.
You can ask it to tell stories, play games, explain grammar, or just have conversations. Also, try crosstalk: it speaks to you in a foreign language, and you speak your native language.
If you have a ChatGPT subscription (about $20 a month), you can use it. Worth trying for a month just to experience.
(BTW LanguaTalk has similar AI conversation features. Also good!)
@liztai It's not really unexpected. We all listen at a higher ability than we speak, even in our native language. I can certainly understand people saying things that I couldn't come up with myself. With reading/writing it is even more obvious: just because you can read a book, doesn't mean you can write one. (The difference is between active and passive skill. Active = writing/speaking, Passive = reading/listening)
Apple Vision Pro has arrived, and Glisten is there in the App Store on day one.
With Glisten on Apple Vision Pro, you can study languages virtually hands free. It's a truly immersive experience!
Blog post:
https://glisten.ist/2024/02/02/hands-free-language-learning-on-apple-vision-pro/
App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6447008785
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Out now is a new episode of iPad Pros with @eabowers! We discuss how he uses the iPad as a mortgage lender and writing a novel.
My thanks to @glisten for sponsoring this episode. Learn more at https://www.glisten.ist. Download Glisten now for iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch. Coming TOMORROW to Apple Vision Pro!
Website: https://ipadpros.net/2024/02/01/episode-190-mortgage-lending-and-novel-writing-with-eric-bowers/
Overcast: https://overcast.fm/+JiG2B4L64
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mortgage-lending-and-novel-writing-with-eric-bowers/id1264565547?i=1000642930957
Vision Pro should be a great device for learning a language with Glisten. The app is already designed for hands free learning, so it fits perfectly.
I'm also really happy with the way it is coming along. It should be available from day one.
Here’s a sneak preview!
If you love iPad or are looking forward to Vision Pro, don't miss the iPad Pros podcast with @tchaten
https://ipadpros.net/2024/01/18/episode-189-wes-hilliard-from-apple-insider/
The Glisten language podcast app is sponsoring for a few weeks!
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Out now is a new episode of iPad Pros with @HilliTech from @appleinsider! We dive into how he uses the iPad as his primary computer, why the MacBook Pro was overkill, and how iPadOS 17 has enabled him to start game streaming from the iPad!
My thanks to @glisten for sponsoring this episode. Learn more at https://www.glisten.ist. Download Glisten now for iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch. Coming soon to Apple Vision Pro!
Website: https://ipadpros.net/2024/01/18/episode-189-wes-hilliard-from-apple-insider/
Overcast: https://overcast.fm/+JiG1QALPE
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