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Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
- ▶ 0:13 Shawn Wang We're back in the studio with Andrew Strugaspeak. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:55 Shawn Wang As and when, because obviously only, only, you know, like those kinds of people, you are now CTO co-founder of Speak. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:35 Alessio Fanelli And you have this big focus on like speaking, obviously it's in the name of the company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:44 Andrew Hsu There's still a lot of open questions, interesting questions around what is the proper onboarding UX, because a lot of people start using Speak, and they're not in a situation where they can actually speak loud.
- ▶ 11:41 Andrew Hsu And in fact, the current version of the speak app is not the first thing that we launched. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:15 Andrew Hsu I think what will end up happening is that we will build a real-time translation feature into Speak and have it integrated into the learning experience.
- ▶ 18:41 Andrew Hsu I have to give him a lot of credit here because we paid a lot of attention to the specific wording of button text in the app and local, you know, like, like localized strings. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:53 Andrew Hsu We had a lot of reports from users pretty early on that they were shocked that it was an American company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:08 Andrew Hsu And that's like a big research effort within the company right now. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:05 Andrew Hsu Still a great product, by the way, you know, still grew to like several million ARR in South Korea. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:18 Andrew Hsu How do you actually store a knowledge graph of everything you know about Spanish in terms of the vocabulary you know or you don't know, this, you know, the patterns that you know or you don't know, the mistakes you made using Speak over… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:39 Andrew Hsu In many of our, like, biggest markets is along the lines of, like, you can make mistakes in this private space with speak, and I think psychologically that's extremely powerful. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:44 Shawn Wang I thought that speak would be one of those places where, like, you just kind of leave it in your pocket.
- ▶ 46:50 Andrew Hsu I think one common theme that has just been pretty awesome since LLMs came out is that language learning as an application is just a really good fit for LLMs, all these model types in almost every way, which has been just really great for…
- ▶ 53:16 Alessio Fanelli Before we zoom out, anything we missed about Speak that you really want to highlight or something that people underrate about it?
- ▶ 56:24 Alessio Fanelli Um, so speak.com. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:03 Shawn Wang Do you get a lot of, like, people using Speak for therapy?
- ▶ 1:02:55 Andrew Hsu It's weird to me that speak is actually like not that many net new consumer AI native applications at scale.
Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- ▶ 1:39:59 Kevin Weil You've got, uh, Speak doing cool things with language translation, like, we're beginning to see this stuff work, and I think it's really gonna start working, uh, as we, as we continue to iterate these models.