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I can recognize words from songs/TVB clips and Jyutping, but when I try to answer out loud, my tones flatten and particles like 啦/喎/啫 disappear. Passive input has helped recognition a lot, but it doesn’t expose production problems as fast as actually speaking. Tone production seems to need active recall, not only reading or flashcards.

My small routine lately is: one Canto song or dubbed clip, check 5-8 words in Pleco/CantoDict, glance at a Jyutping chart, shadow 2 lines while making tea or washing dishes, then do 5-10 minutes of low-pressure spoken practice with ISSEN because I’m in a small place with basically no Cantonese speakers nearby. Not replacing humans, more like forcing myself to answer instead of only “understand”.

One hack that’s been useful: record the same 2 lines for 7 days and listen only for tones + final particles, not accent perfection. Even boring topics work as prompts, like this office-return article. How do you all practice casual 粵語 speaking without nearby native speakers, especially non-textbook sentences?

Most AI voice SaaS landing pages sell the voice.

“Sounds human.” “Natural conversations.” “AI receptionist.” “AI sales agent.” “AI support agent.”

But if you strip the demo polish away, the boring failure is usually earlier.

The agent hears the user wrong.

Then everything after that gets worse:

wrong transcript → wrong intent → wrong tool call → wrong CRM update → wrong summary → wrong follow-up → angry customer

A voice can sound slightly robotic and still be useful.

But if it hears “don’t cancel” as “cancel,” the product is dead.

For voice SaaS, I’d build the stack around the listening layer first:

call/audio input → Smallest AI Pulse for real-time STT → entity checker → workflow engine → Stripe / Calendly / CRM action → confirmation message → audit log

The STT metric I’d care about is not just WER.

It’s:

• did the right task happen?

• did the right field get filled?

• did the user correction get captured?

• did the summary match the call?

• did the system avoid acting when uncertain?

For AI voice SaaS, “heard correctly” is a retention feature.

Founders building voice products: are you measuring transcript accuracy or task accuracy?

Hi, so i got offered a position as tech support associate in a decent IT infrastructure company. I'm a recent BCA graduate so i have no proper prior experience and i want to get into cybersecurity roles in future (havent actually studied it yet). I'm not sure whether this tech support experience would be relevant to have on my resume. Plus they kinda rushed me into verbally saying yes, haven't received an offer letter yet but they're planning to have me join the team next week itself, hence the rush.

Also in the job listing, the opening was mentioned in both Noida and Gurgaon but after the interview, on a call, i was told that the position is only available in Gurgaon currently and they'll provide only one way cab service (during late nights). Now i'm confused whether travelling over 2 hours 1 way is worth it for a salary of a tech support associate. The JD mentions troubleshooting, diagnosing and repairing complex equipments and softwares.

Looking for genuine advice from experienced peeps here.

Hey guys, i recently got a new pair of cmf buds 2 plus and I absolutely love the sound quality along with all the features but there's this problem that I'm facing. Whenever there's a new notification while a song is playing, it feels like the song glitches out even though i know it's just the music muting for that half second for me to hear the notification sound. But it is very annoying as i get a lot of notifications. It feels like i'm literally just glitching through the music, and if i have a whatsapp chat open then ohh well, I feel like i'm listening to a glitched out version of that song. Is there a way to fix it or is it intentional?

I didnt score well in my NIMCET and was hoping to get an IPU college only to realize that they haven't opened registration for new students this year unlike last year. I feel kind of scammed and hopeless since there were no notices either. Now idk what to do, my parents told me that I need to either get a good college or a job by the end of this month or they'll kick me out and now i'm wondering what to do. I dont wanna take a drop year, and finding a job is gonna be hell of a struggle too right now. I can't ask my parents to just get me admitted in a private college either, tell me what to do. Should i start online MCA from VIT along with a job? Would that be worth it?

I hadnt registered for IPU counselling for MCA before and I thought that nimcet applicants can register for MCA after result declaration but i dont see any registration visible on my portal. Can only a previously registered candidate apply for MCA in IPU?

I was expecting to get around 1500 rank but reality hit me at 5.01 p.m. My rank is 4153 and i am totally depressed right now. I live in ncr so was hoping to get a decent ipu university, but ig even that wont be possible with my shitty rank. I worked hard and gave everything i had for those 2 months but i guess i'll never be as good with studies.

Any suggestions about what i should do next? Is it possible to get into VIPS IPU in the spot round? I feel totally lost, havent even told my family yet, i dont know how to share this disappointing news.