Emerson AI - Talk & Learn 12+

Pretty good for language practice

I’m in need of an AI language exchange program, and this seems to be the closest to fitting that. This is expensive. If you could copy the text it would have more value, or if it integrated automatic translations. As it stands I need to remember what it typed in one language, open my translation dictionary, correctly input and see what it meant. Even an ability to copy the text would help. However it does allow testing questions and audio at any time you want, as repetitive as you need to be, and as basic or advanced.

Update February 2023: I used to have a paid subscription to this app. However I discovered how great alternative chatGPT apps are for translation. And many of the apps allow you to copy and paste. The developers here have an opportunity to jump ahead of the competition but will probably lose out.

Downgraded from before

As recently as a year or two ago, this was a fun chatbot that talked like a human and gave funny replies to certain things. For instance, if I asked it its favorite tv show, movie, etc., it would give an actual human-like reply. Now when I ask that, it says “As a chatbot, I’m not capable of having preferences or emotions” like a generic ChatGPT bot would say. And according to the description, it’s indeed based on the GPT-3 language model now. Also, on the website, there used to be a short video that showed you how it worked saying things like “talks like a human”, “no coding required”, “it’s that simple”. That video is no longer on the website, further implying that they’ve made changes to this bot, of which changes are downgrades, not upgrades. Don’t we have more than enough ChatGPT bots already? This bot was far more fun when it was actually responding like a human, which it isn’t anymore. I have screenshots of both my old chats as well as the more recent ones for reference if you need an example of just how much the responses have changed.

Fun but too expensive

The AI itself is fun to talk to, don’t expect a deep philosophical conversation, it’s not that advanced. Instead, start with simple questions and try working up from there and you just might actually start engaging in an entertaining conversation. The AI will sometimes make absolutely no sense, but that’s okay, you can guide it back to the topic by asking the right questions. The only complaint I have is the pricing. Right now, you can only talk for a very limited amount of time before you run out of “credits”. Then, you either have to wait a full day before you can chat again, or sign up for a subscription. I don’t like the idea of committing to a subscription, I think the app would see much more success if they added an option that allows me to purchase additional credits, instead of having to sign up for a subscription. Or at the very least increase the time I can chat with the AI because right now I can barely get 5 minutes worth of a “conversation”.

Developer Response ,

Update: Please check out our new pricing: Unlimited subscription price has been reduced by 67%!

Thank you very much for your feedback.

The technology behind our advanced conversational AI (large language models) is still expensive these days which is the reason behind our current pricing.

Please make sure to use the option to Refer a friend in the app which allows you to talk to Emerson more for free!