Google Is Now Rolling Out an AI-Powered Duolingo Competitor
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Google deploys two new features fueled by Google for Google Translate this week, and it may not be good news for Duolingo. The application now generates practice sessions so that you can listen or speak with it. These lessons are generated by AI and, according to Google, “adapt intelligently to your skill level”. He follows another experience fueled by Google, which was launched in April, entitled “Language lessons”, although the implementation of Google Translate seems a little more basic.
This feature takes place this week on iOS and Android in beta version. It does not seem to have landed on my translate application, but here is how Google says that it will work: first, Google Translate will ask you how qualified you are in the current language: “Basic”, which means that you know words and sentences; “Intermediary”, which means that you can express opinions and discuss daily things; And “advanced”, which means you can talk about a myriad of in -depth subjects. (There will also be an option “just to start”, but it is not yet available.)
Once you have made your choice, you can share your motivation to learn the language, something you write yourself is something you choose in the application. (You can ignore this if you wish, although I imagine that it helps AI focus on lessons adapted to your learning goals.) From there, the application generates experiences with which you can practice. For example, this could suggest a scenario in which you are training to ask questions about different meals. If you choose this scenario, you choose then if you want to train yourself to listen or speak. Your listening practice can play a short clip of someone who speaks in your target language, then have you selected words in a list that you recognize. Speech practices can make you say sentences that appear on the screen.
It’s simple, but it could be effective. Google says it worked with “learning experts” to develop these tools according to the latest research on language acquisition. If I can learn to speak better and understand the Portuguese for free, it seems good to me, but only time will tell us if it is on speech with a dedicated language learning application like Duolingo.
What do you think so far?
Right -up of the live conversation
The other new feature here is an upgrading of the existing “live conversation” functionality. The idea is to turn on the live conversation and start talking to the other person as you would normally. Then, the application translates what you said and shows this translation to the other.
The new upgrade, however, seems to push functionality a little further. Now the application will translate what you say in real time, so that the other person can read the translation while you speak. If they want or need to hear the translation in full, the application will be read for transcription once you have finished. Google says that this feature works for live conversations in more than 70 languages, including Arabic, French, Hindi, Korean, Spanish and Tamil, and are available in Google Translate for Users in the United States, India and Mexico.
You can see an example of how this new experience works from this video. When I tried it, the application seems to translate fairly quickly, which I can only imagine facilitating conversation:
