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24 alternatives to Talk
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Talk launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Duolingo Bots▲631AI-powered characters to teach language conversation
2016 · duolingo.com · its alternatives →
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TalkNative▲122A native speaker at your fingertips, available 24/7
2024 · talknative.app · its alternatives →
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Learn English, Spanish, German, French & more by talking
2024 · lucasapp.framer.ai · its alternatives →
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A new spoken language training app based on ChatGPT
2023 · trancy.org · its alternatives →
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A living resource for social, cultural & identity issues
2022 · languageplease.org · its alternatives →
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Learn any language or dialect through humanlike conversation
2025 · its alternatives →
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Essential travel words and phrases, now at your fingertips
2019 · languagedrops.com · its alternatives →
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Free & interactive language world map. Discover with how many people you can communicate, and share your coloured map and results!
2023 · languageworldmap.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I built TalkBits because most language apps focus on vocabulary or exercises, but not actual conversation. The hard part of learning a language is speaking naturally under pressure. TalkBits lets you have real-time spoken conversations with an AI that acts like a native speaker. You can choose different scenarios (travel, daily life, work, etc.), speak naturally, and the AI responds with natural speech back. The goal is to make it feel like talking to a real person rather than doing lessons. Techwise, it uses realtime speech input, transcription, LLM responses, and tts streaming to keep…
Jan 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News, When learning foreign languages, I made the most progress by speaking them throughout the day, every day. So I made a site where you can *speak* to an AI language teacher to practice both listening and speaking. # The product *What I have now:* * Multilingual speech recognition: You can ask a question in English and get an answer in your target language. * Feedback on your grammar. * Suggestions: See examples of what to say next to keep the conversation flowing. * Speed: Choose a lower speed for beginners or a faster one for advanced levels. * Translations: Click to see a…
2023 · gliglish.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I made Lingo - the SQLite of semantic search. I'm a self-taught developer and researcher who left school at 16, and I've spent some time exploring a first-principles approach to system design for various frontier problems. In this case it's AI that challenges the 'bigger is better' transformer paradigm. Lingo is the first piece of that research, a high-performance linguistic database designed to run on-device. The full technical overview and manifesto is here: https://medium.com/@robm.antunes/bcd1e9752af6 The paper has been archived on Zenodo with a DOI:…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Speak another language without learning another language.
2014 · teams.live.com · its alternatives →
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An AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages
Jan 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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TalkFlow▲33Speak English Naturally with Human-Like AI Tutors.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Chat across languages everyone speaks in their native tongue
2025 · its alternatives →
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