I’ve tried Greek (Athena voice) and the accent is terrible. It sounds like an English or American person speaking Greek!

Thanks for pointing that out. Did you try the other ones by any chance?

How does this compare to Langua?

Langua is a nice app with more features than ISSEN. We focus on the voice chats, and I think our tech is better (intelligence, latency, realtime flow, voices, etc), especially for non english/spanish.

We are aiming to create a long term companion/tutor that gets to know you more and more, and can create customized curriculums, lessons, etc.

Co-founder of Langua here.

Congratulations on the launch! Very cool take on combining the structure of a personalized curriculum with voice chats.

Langua has both a chat mode and a voice mode for uninterrupted conversations to give learners flexibility. Our initial approach has been less structured which is ideal for intermediate / advanced learners. We have had a lot of demand from beginners for more structured and personalized learning paths, so we're rolling those out as well.

Best of luck with with ISSEN.

I’m often working with a windows desktop and a remote Linux box on which I have my data & code. I’d like to plot “locally” on my desktop workstation from the remote host. This usually either means using X11 (slow) or some sort of web-based library like plotly. Does fastplotlib offer any easy solution here?

This is exactly why we use jupyter-rfb, I often have large datasets on a remote cluster computer and we perform remote rendering.

see: https://fastplotlib.org/ver/dev/user_guide/faq.html#what-fra...

I'm in the same boat as the person you replied to, but have zero experience with remote plotting other that doing static plots in in a remote session in the interactive window provided by VS Code's python extension. Would this also work there, or would I have to start using jupyter notebooks?

non-jupyter notebook implementations have their quirks, eventually we hope to make a more universal jupyter-rfb kind of library, perhaps using anywidget. Anywidget is awesome: https://github.com/manzt/anywidget

People have used fastplotlib and jupyter-rfb in vscode, but it can be troublesome and we don't currently have the resources to figure out exactly why.

Alright, thanks. I don't particularly like notebook, but this might a reason to give it another go.

I’ve found X11 to be fine, but:

- defaults are often bad. In R there is a way to turn on double-buffering in Cairo to make things fast

- eventually so went for R-inside-orgmode where graphics are written to pngs (fast) and then displayed inside Emacs (fast over X forwarding so long as you aren’t trying to smooth-scroll with an image half-visible in the current window).