Jay

Education Technology ➜ Newcomer ✧₊⁺ Language Learning RPG (in beta) ➜ Wisp ✧₊⁺ Learn languages from video games (in beta)

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

The "Six Flags Update" for Newcomer, my solo-developed language learning RPG, is now live on Steam!🚀 My 2nd major update this year 💪

1⃣ 6 new target languages to learn and practice
2⃣ 15 new characters to meet & practice with
3⃣ Greatly improved Intermediate chat

#indiedev

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

@drivelinekyle @ludwigABAP I haven't been able to find an API for SAM models. Do you have any recommendations?

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

@ludwigABAP I wish there was an API to access the models

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

@yiran__c Congrats! This is really interesting. I love the art style you all chose - very on theme

[Mark™ @thinkwithmark]

We raised $1M dollars to reinvent how people read. Introducing Mark II - a $159 AI bookmark. Thread below

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

Claude just rickrolled me in a test curl command 😭

I was building an audio extraction Cloudflare container and it picked it as the test YouTube URL... honestyly respect for keeping me on my toes

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

@NormanFrog Release to early access? It will bring in more funds and provide valuable feedback to improve the full release. Yes - it will be rough, and your instinct tells you not to do it - but I think it's better than letting the thing collect dust and never be played. just my 2c, gl!

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

@kevinafischer Wow - emotion and energy tracking is really interesting! I don't think I've seen that. So, his current emotions presumably affect his spoken output?

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

Generated in Gemini AI Studio, speaker 1: Schedar

"Let’s look at the word 'carro.' This is a sustantivo in Spanish that means “car” in English. It is a common word used to talk about a vehículo that people drive for transportation. In many countries, carro is the everyday word people use, although in other places you may also hear coche or auto. For example, in the sentence 'Mi carro está afuera de la casa,' the word carro refers to the speaker’s car and gives a clear everyday context for how the word is used."

It seems to pronounce the Spanish right ~70% of the time across different speakers - with a decent Spanish accent. The other times, it pronounces the word correctly *using the English pronunciation set*, but it's not how the word is pronounced in Spanish.

There is only 1 TTS provider I've used that has a model which always nails the translanguaging, but they're a bit slow. Happy to pass on more information about that or my usecase. This is a great model and I'm looking forward to more improvements!

Cheers

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

@denisbondare wow that's neat

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Ambitious projects are load bearing for society. The second order effects are everywhere and can be observed in the smallest random niches.

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

@johncoogan @sama Bring back the paper tweets!

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

@HL3rd_ that's amazing haha

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

I'm always impressed about how sophisticated all the existing Japanese language learning tools are - tons of great open source projects too

is this because some subset of japanese learners are just cracked engineers or is there something else im missing

[Speechbound @speechbound]

Check out our new trailer! And don’t forget to support our Kickstarter!

https://t.co/rcdc7nuxUM

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

@speechbound Good luck!

[Alex Smith @ninja_maths]

For anyone wondering how a third-grader can complete six years' worth of math in a single year.

This knowledge graph spans 3,000 math topics, from 4th grade to the university level, providing the perfect basis for mastery learning.

Students can go as fast or far as they want! There are no restrictions whatsoever. The only requirement is that they must demonstrate mastery of each topic before moving on to the next.

Kids are capable of incredible things when given that kind of freedom and support.

[Jay @NewcomerGames]

I just backed Speechbound - A Language Learning RPG on

@kickstarter https://t.co/cyEWaw0bR4

Coool project w/ some really interesting language learning mechanics inside @speechbound

[araña @xanathgum]

some spanish phrases you might need to learn:

im chilling: estoy chillando
im embarrassed: estoy embarazada