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dakota | 13 years ago | on: Django 1.5 release candidate available

I just started learning 1.4! :-)

dakota | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: My first product. Thoughts?

This is very true. I studied abroad last year, and some of the students who could not read had an incredibly difficult time. Eventually, they were forced to catch up, and life got much better for them. They could explore the city much easier, do things on there own, without having to have someone who could read with them.

dakota | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: My first product. Thoughts?

I spent last year studying in Beijing, and I reached a certain level of fluency, but now that I have come back, I have trouble maintaining it. I read books (许三观卖血记，活着, both by Yu Hua), and go through my Anki flashcards, and sometimes read through my textbooks.

My reading abilities haven't fallen much, but it's my ability to create sentences, i.e., talking, that's failing me. Mainly because I'm not talking with anybody, can't find anybody to talk with.

Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!

dakota | 13 years ago | on: Open-Source Speech Recognition: Simon 0.4.0 Released

Does anyone know if this does full speech-to-text transcription, i.e., I speak, it fills my speech into a text box? Or is it just for controlling the desktop via speech I tried googling, but couldn't come up with much.

Also, there is no Wikipedia page for them!