YouGlish — an amazing example for ‘leverage’

Uses youtube to improve to improve user’s English pronunciation

YouGlish(https://youglish.com) has become a textbook example for me for ‘leverage’.

When I think of my next side project or next feature, I would certainly ask myself, What am I leveraging — existing data or a recent trend or a recent technological advancement or an existing clientele of another product — instead of doing everything from scratch.

How YouGlish works

While UX can be much better, the idea is superb. It uses existing youtube videos to help us learn pronunciation.

One of the 71 results in YouGlish when I am trying to learn how to pronounce ‘Chervolet’ — https://youglish.com/search/chevrolet

YouGlish doesn’t even have to do voice->text. The Transcripts are already available in youtube.

Few others trying to solve this

They create a video for every word — not scalable, restricted to one person’s pronunciation— https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txe3AUR_N8s

https://www.howtopronounce.com/chevrolet/, — Accuracy and coverage is a huge issue

Verdict :)