Always having to pay
It is like this with other apps too, but at least with Duolingo you don’t have to pay for a monthly trial. They just give you the option, but with Seyo you have to pay for trial before you can do any other lessons I can’t even get to the next lesson because they want me to pay and I hate this if they can at least make you not have to pay. I will download this app again, but overall this app is pretty good. I just don’t like how you have to pay because there’s no way I’m paying that much money just to speak Korean when I can go and get Korean lessons myself…
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Great But Voice Recognition Could Improve
This is by far the best app to help in my studying so far, thus why I’m giving five stars. As someone who is terrified to speak with a native speaker until I have more confidence this has been a great outlet to build my confidence. My ONLY complaint is that Seyo will clearly hear me because the AI transcribes my words and yet will give me a low grade. I can usually expect this because Seyo always takes longer to register that I’ve finished speaking in these instances. It’s fine because you still have the option to listen and compare your pronounciation to the example which reaffirms that my pronounciation was close, Seyo just could not catch it.
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Love it!
This is exactly what I need for enhancing my Korean speaking skills. I love that it corrects and rates my pronunciation. I know so many words and grammar but my speaking and pronunciation skills are terrible. This app is just perfect for me so I can go back to South Korea and speak to locals with confidence. I’m so glad they have so many units and levels. Thanks!
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needs some technical work
Conceptually this app is perfect, but in many areas the AI models used are not sophisticated enough. The AI conversations are nonsense or worse; one asked to borrow my phone, and when I asked why, it threatened to borrow my wallet. Pronunciation feedback doesn’t exist.
Despite that it is still pretty good, compared to your average language app
Despite that it is still pretty good, compared to your average language app
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A solid comprehensive course
This app is a solid platform to improve any level of Korean; the structured conversations help reinforce grammar and pronunciation without making one feel self conscious; Korean isn’t easy but Seyo makes it fun!!
PAYING
Great learning app but after your first lesson you would have to pay to go on with Seyo! Recommended unless you wanna pay.
So close to amazing
I love the ttmik resources, and I want to love this app and service so much, but it’s not quite there. The pronunciation help is amazing, but like other reviewers have said, it sometimes has issues with recognizing that i have spoken at all.
My real complaint is the order of the lessons. I know it’s technically a separate service from the others in the ttmik family, but I wish the lessons were in the same order as they occur in the book and video lesson series. Seyo is an amazing resource, but with the very brief explanations of grammar concepts and minimal vocabulary, it feels like a supplement rather than a whole learning plan on its own. And when I have to rote memorize large chunks of vocabulary to make it through a speaking lesson I won’t be doing the textbook written and listening work for until weeks later it’s frustrating. For a premium app with a subscription, I won’t be renewing until it is more cohesive with the rest of the company’s resources. PLEASE CONSIDER FIXING THIS. I would be a subscriber for life if this were the case.
My real complaint is the order of the lessons. I know it’s technically a separate service from the others in the ttmik family, but I wish the lessons were in the same order as they occur in the book and video lesson series. Seyo is an amazing resource, but with the very brief explanations of grammar concepts and minimal vocabulary, it feels like a supplement rather than a whole learning plan on its own. And when I have to rote memorize large chunks of vocabulary to make it through a speaking lesson I won’t be doing the textbook written and listening work for until weeks later it’s frustrating. For a premium app with a subscription, I won’t be renewing until it is more cohesive with the rest of the company’s resources. PLEASE CONSIDER FIXING THIS. I would be a subscriber for life if this were the case.
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Not good at all
I bought a year subscription because it was recommended by TTMIK which I like a lot but unfortunately I do not like this app. at all. The voice recognition is very glitchy and frequently leaves parts out or doesn’t register what I am saying at all. It’s also extremely slow to respond so getting through one lesson is very painful and frustrating.
I find the lessons do not help much with speaking as nothing is repeated so I will just forget what I learned as I hear it as a one time thing.
I’m disappointed as I really like the TTMIK website and materials. I have bought many of their books and their content is great. I’m very disappointed this app is not useful and I’ve wasted a lot of money on it.
I find the lessons do not help much with speaking as nothing is repeated so I will just forget what I learned as I hear it as a one time thing.
I’m disappointed as I really like the TTMIK website and materials. I have bought many of their books and their content is great. I’m very disappointed this app is not useful and I’ve wasted a lot of money on it.
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App is having issues where it can’t hear me properly when i speak
Like the title says
Call option
The voice recognition keeps mishearing me. The microphone works, but the app doesn’t pick up or recognise what I say even if I speak in my native language. It is very frustrating
First time Use
I’m still very new to the Korean language so getting to use something that could build up my confidence in speaking and enforcing knowledge is a very big must. I see a lot of potential with the app, especially with the pronunciation registry that helps build tone and clarity with words.
On the other hand, I can also see where it can use a little more detail. For example the way the app tries to catch my voice isn’t often very good. It seems to pause too long, almost glitching, and sometimes even disappearing all together with the little green face. Also it’d probably be good to make the little green face more apparent to when it is recording the voice as it’s rather hard to tell when it is and isn’t. This is just the coding so it can be fixed.
The other thing I’d like to see is a little more connection with other things. The simplicity of the app is very nice but I don’t see a lot of correlation with what we’re being taught with the Seyo conversation starters/role play given to us. And what is being taught isn’t really being enforced past the initial lesson.
Still, it’s a new app so there is plenty of room for development!
On the other hand, I can also see where it can use a little more detail. For example the way the app tries to catch my voice isn’t often very good. It seems to pause too long, almost glitching, and sometimes even disappearing all together with the little green face. Also it’d probably be good to make the little green face more apparent to when it is recording the voice as it’s rather hard to tell when it is and isn’t. This is just the coding so it can be fixed.
The other thing I’d like to see is a little more connection with other things. The simplicity of the app is very nice but I don’t see a lot of correlation with what we’re being taught with the Seyo conversation starters/role play given to us. And what is being taught isn’t really being enforced past the initial lesson.
Still, it’s a new app so there is plenty of room for development!
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Love it but
I love it but it keeps lagging like when I repeat something it will lag or freeze and I have to go in and out of the app and then telling me I didn’t say something correctly (when I know I did) 이건 is not hard to say. I talk to my Korean friend on hello talk who also confirm I said it correctly. The speech recognition needs to be updated or something. I changed my tone to make it lighter, I moved the phone away from being too close to my mouth and it still isn’t recognizing
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false advertisement
baits you into thinking it’s free but none $17 a month
It’s great when it works
I enjoy the app because I really like the TTMIK group. But this app sometimes just doesn’t hear what I’m saying and it makes it frustrating compared to other language apps that I’ve used without issue
Helpful, but needs work.
I know my pronunciation isn’t perfect, but my native Korean language partner can understand me fine. Unfortunately even with basic phrases seyo cannot understand me or misses half of the sentence I say - but only on the role play portions which is weird. The rest seems to work fine. It gets extremely frustrating.
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Put a button to stop recording!!!
For goodness sakes! Will you guys please put a button in this app that notifies the application that you’ve stopped speaking in the voice recognition parts? Sometimes you have to wait upwards of 15 seconds or more for the application to figure out that you stopped talking, only for it to give you a poor grade because the microphone didn’t catch everything you had said. SOOO archaic and frustrating!!!
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Good app for very motivated learners
I like how the team of TTMIK doing their job, it is not the first product that I buy from them. They put a lot of efforts in their products and it is very good quality. But what I noticed with their products: the products are for very very motivated learners. I get bored very quickly with their products that don’t happen with me during using other Korean language resources (I study Korean for 3 years). Which is a pitty as I really love the quality of the materials they are doing. I wish that one day the team will focus more in engagement of users through their products.
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Love the lessons and AI
I had been using TTMIK lessons for a year before starting on Seyo, and always lamented not being able to practice speaking. I finally started Seyo and I was blown away.
I love the structured lessons and a separate section for freestyle practice with the AI.
Note that I had completed all lessons in TTMIK first before embarking on Seyo. It’s not ideal to learn first without practicing speaking but the two curricula are different so if you’re trying to follow along, u will get confused. Seyo uses a wide range of vocab and even some intermediate forms at level 2 onwards (to mimic real life situations) and while they try their best not to mix it up too much, it is something to be mindful of, that the grammar form will be properly taught later on. This is especially obvious with the freestyle AI chats - thank goodness for the translation!
The only down side is the voice recognition is still really buggy and server is laggy. It sometimes hangs and often mishears me (I am pretty sure I said it correctly). I sometimes find I can speak at a normal volume and other times I am shouting at it but it still doesn’t pick it up. Compared to similar AI eg Papago and even ChatGPT which can mishear me too (perhaps minor pronunciation like 있 instead of 이 or ㅋ instead of ㄱ, or adding in an extra ㅆ which could be my fault) but they mostly pick up my speech loudness so I know it’s not my phone’s mic at fault.
Otherwise I am now slowly building the confidence to communicate with my Korean friends after 2 years! I really love Seyo and really appreciate the TTMIK team who put in so much effort and deliver the program with love! 사랑해요!
I love the structured lessons and a separate section for freestyle practice with the AI.
Note that I had completed all lessons in TTMIK first before embarking on Seyo. It’s not ideal to learn first without practicing speaking but the two curricula are different so if you’re trying to follow along, u will get confused. Seyo uses a wide range of vocab and even some intermediate forms at level 2 onwards (to mimic real life situations) and while they try their best not to mix it up too much, it is something to be mindful of, that the grammar form will be properly taught later on. This is especially obvious with the freestyle AI chats - thank goodness for the translation!
The only down side is the voice recognition is still really buggy and server is laggy. It sometimes hangs and often mishears me (I am pretty sure I said it correctly). I sometimes find I can speak at a normal volume and other times I am shouting at it but it still doesn’t pick it up. Compared to similar AI eg Papago and even ChatGPT which can mishear me too (perhaps minor pronunciation like 있 instead of 이 or ㅋ instead of ㄱ, or adding in an extra ㅆ which could be my fault) but they mostly pick up my speech loudness so I know it’s not my phone’s mic at fault.
Otherwise I am now slowly building the confidence to communicate with my Korean friends after 2 years! I really love Seyo and really appreciate the TTMIK team who put in so much effort and deliver the program with love! 사랑해요!
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Good in theory!
Nice interface and very user friendly but a little bit buggy! Retrying answers does not always reset the evaluation of your answers, and the voice to text is very hit and miss. Absolutely love ttmik and love the idea of an app to do exercises but this is quite expensive and (imo) would be better without ai or evaluation because they are both unreliable.
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Great app to help you but glitches a little
I’ve been using this app for a week and overall it’s a lot of fun to help you practice speaking! I love the broken down lessons and it’s easy to follow along. I know this app is very new still so they still have some things to work on. My only small complaint is sometimes it won’t recognize my voice and clicking the green button doesn’t let me restart. I have to exit the app to reset it. But overall i wish there were more apps like this that make you speak!
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