Teacher AI - Language Practice 4+

I downloaded this app just to try out and was immediately met with a paywall. After reluctantly signing up for a 7 day free trial, I was surprised by the quality of the voices in the app and the response quality as well. However, the biggest issue is that the time it takes the ‘teacher’ to respond varies dramatically. Sometimes, it responds in a matter of seconds, but other times, it doesn’t even respond after I wait a 10 full minutes and is still displaying a blank screen with a loading symbol. Moreover, I don’t think there is a way to quickly correct if the ‘teacher’ mishears you (such as a quick flag button) which would be useful sometimes. I love the concept of this app overall, but the execution in my experience is subpar and still needs some more work.

Alright, we've made lots of progress in the meantime. Thanks for sharing!

This is a fabulous idea, and for the few minutes it worked I was AMAZED. I’ll check back in a few months & maybe give this another shot. That’s my free advice to anyone else considering the app & subscribing, too.

I downloaded Oct 23, 2024. It worked great when I tried it out for 15 minutes. Even bought a subscription to give it a fair go.

Writing this review Oct 31: I’ve tried on three occasions to get it working again, including multiple restarts & one delete/re-install.

Spent a couple of hours casting about for any kind of tech support. There seem to be ONLY two avenues: Discord, where other users might know something, or emailing the company, which promises to reply within 24 hrs. So, the two extremes. No FAQ. No documentation. No chat or voice tech support.

Discord mainly seems to be Jan (the developer) explaining why people are wrong or expect too much… look; this thing isn’t ready for commercial release if you can’t support a software you’re SELLING to people.

Hi there, Jan here. Sorry to hear about your experience. Our support team replies within 24 hours, but often much faster. That's the best place to go if you need help. We have a FAQ/Help page here: https://yourteacher.ai/support/ - Did you manage to get the app to work in the end?

As others have pointed out, the response loading time varies a lot and an option to correct the ai when it mishears would be nice. I noticed it can have trouble hearing correctly, especially with Spanish.

Another bug that I noticed more recently is the option to display the pinyin alongside Chinese characters no longer works. This makes trying to learn a lot more difficult.

I think once the bugs actually get fixed and they spend more time with the app, it could be really great.

Thanks for sharing. Yesterday we published a new app version that can 'hear' you better when speaking Spanish for example. Before it was sometimes transcribed in another language, which caused problems as you pointed out. The pinyin button works again, that feature faced some timeouts indeed. Cheers!