Dou Bao 豆包

[suMMit]

Dou Bao is a really good AI resource, especially to practice listening and speaking. It's completely free. It's the best Chinese AI voice I've heard yet and you can choose for scores of accents, plus male/female. You can hold the button and talk, listen to the answer and think about your reply and then press the button again. Or, you can us the phone call function and it's like you're talking to someone live and have to think quickly. With the question function, you can ask it about something and either read or listen to the answer and it almost always sends you a related Douyin video. I've asked it to do role plays with me and it works great. Their text to speech is excellent and fast as well, it gets everything I say seamlessly. Maybe it's answers could be too wordy for low levels, but it will also dumb it down if you ask it. I Can't think of anything negative to say about it. Highly recommend giving it a try.

[lordsuso]

Yes I've been using it since you recommended it in another post and I really like it. I was getting bored of chat-gpt and its limited options.