Using My Programming Skills To DESTROY Duolingo
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0:00–0:25I want to make a program that lets me speak any language in the world just so I don't have to use Duolingo. You see, I'm too lazy to learn a new language. I'm sorry. I just am. I'm too American for this. I have better things to do. So, I had a genius idea. I'm a programmer. Not a skilled programmer, but I can write hello world, so I can basically work at Google and make any program in the world. Why can't I create a program that does all the Duolingo exercises for me? And if I can do that,
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I want to make a program that lets me speak any language in the world just so I don't have to use Duolingo. You see, I'm too lazy to learn a new language. I'm sorry. I just am. I'm too American for this. I have better things to do. So, I had a genius idea. I'm a programmer. Not a skilled programmer, but I can write hello world, so I can basically work at Google and make any program in the world. Why can't I create a program that does all the Duolingo exercises for me? And if I can do that, that basically means I can make another program that lets me speak any language in the world, which means I never have to learn a language and I never have to touch Duolingo again. Oh my god, I'm such a genius. Step one, interacting with Duolingo. There's multiple approaches we can do for this. Approach number one, Now, this approach is pretty straightforward. If you open up inspect element, you're going to see all this disgusting information. We're actually going to take advantage of this information and write a program that uses it. This is called DOM manipulation. The program is pretty straightforward in English terms. First, we're going to grab the question. Second, we're going to grab the answer choices. And then third, we're going to have an AI look at both the question and the answer choices, and it's going to pick the correct answer. The AI is then going to give the correct answer to the program, and the program is going to click the answer choice. And if this program works properly, I have destroyed Duolingo. Easy peasy. And oh, would you look at that? That's the code. Yeah, the program is that simple. It has AI and everything. And the only reason why it's this simple is because Google recently added built-in AI inside the browser that you can program with. Let's see if this program works.
Watch from 0:00Ocha. Oh, it actually did work. Wait, what? If we click check, it's the correct answer. That's sick. This is actually pretty cool. Since I'm using Google's built-in AI inside the browser, you can literally run this code for yourself and destroy Duolingo as long as you have the most up-to-date version of Chrome. So, do what you will with that information. All I have to do now is modify the program to automatically click the check button, and hopefully it'll be correct all the time, and then it's going to click the continue button. And then once it clicks those two buttons, I'm going to do like a 5-second timeout so the next question and all the answers load, and then it'll keep doing that until hopefully it completes the lesson. Chat, this approach is not looking good. As you can see in this question, it says select the correct meaning, specifically for water. As you can tell by that little Bozo, the issue is that little Bozo is a whole different element. So the program is not detecting it. I don't know how, but AI still got the answer right. And I am positive it only got it correct by sheer dumb luck, cuz there's no way. So I'm just going to test this program manually because I'm positive this approach is not going to work. I promise you this one's going to work fine. Sushi, noise, correct answer. Ooh, I do not think this program is going to solve this. Yeah, I thought so.
Watch from 1:28Yeah, this approach is not going to work. Uh, I knew it. Approach number two. The problem with this first approach is Duolingo has different types of exercises, and those exercises have different types of instructions and elements, which means I would have to write code for every type of exercise, and I'm too lazy. That's basically as much work as learning the language, so what's the point? So I had a genius idea. Let's use OCR, which stands for optical character recognition, some nerd stuff, and in super simple terms, it basically lets computers read text from an image. So the plan for this approach is number one, I'm going to take a screenshot. Number two, I'm going to send that screenshot to an AI, and it's going to read what's on it. AI is smart enough to read text from an image, so it'll get the question, the instructions, and the choices. And then step number three, I'm going to You're so stupid. realize that this approach is not going to work. Approach number three. Okay, the idea was I was going to tell AI to give me coordinates on where to click, and then I was going to send those coordinates to the program to click for me. But I just realized it's the exact same problem as the first approach. Every exercise has different instructions, which means I would have to program different coordinates based on the exercise. But, there is some good news. We don't need this Unk OCR technology. Nowadays, AI can control your computer. Woo! So, instead of me using this caveman method of programming the exact coordinates, I can just tell AI click the button and it'll click the button. Whoa! That's
Watch from 2:45right, we're living in the future. All I have to do now is add some visuals so you can see what's actually happening because this kind of looks boring. It shouldn't be that difficult. I mean, it's just like HTML CSS. How hard could that This was stupid hard. It was harder to make these visuals than to make the program to destroy Duolingo. I hate myself. But, as you can see, I've added some visuals so you can see what the AI is doing. And I also made it in the style of Duolingo because I thought it would be funny. This program's really cool. I'm using this thing called Stage Hand, which is a pretty new thing. It's a browser automation framework that let you control the web browser with code and like Ooh! Shut up, nerd. Sorry you had to sit through that. I know you don't care about that information. Oh, you do? Then you should check out my sick newsletter called Sloth Bites. Oh, you don't know what Sloth Bites is? Sloth Bites is my free newsletter where every week I give you programming advice and news so you can stay up-to-date and not get behind. So, if you are one of those people that are serious about programming, you should definitely subscribe. Come on, subscribe. Do it. It's free. It's free. It's free. Okay, so I finished up the program for Duolingo. It's a pretty straightforward program. First, it's going to go to Duolingo's website and it's going to follow this prompt that I gave it, which basically says read the question and the choices and do whatever the question says. And then once it does that, it's going to show this button and once I press the button, that's when the program is going to start. Let's test this thing. I'm going to press the button now. Come on, come on. Please work. Please work. Please work. Please work. Please work. Please work. It's taking forever. Come on.
Watch from 4:18Did it work? No way. Oh my god, it actually worked. Let's Okay, now we're going to try it on these other exercises. If it works on this, then the program actually works. Yes. Yes. Sushi. What? It actually got this one? Yes. You again. Please. I've upgraded my program. There's no way. Huh? What do you mean? You didn't finish nothing. What? All right, let's not worry about that one. Here's a different one. Kudasai. Yes. Yes. It got that one. What? Great work. Let's make this a bit harder. Please. Oh, no. Oh my god, no. Oh my god, this has to be rage bait. There's no way. Okay, so the program is somewhat successful, which is pretty good. It just can't solve this writing exercise. And I honestly don't know why. And it's the worst kind of bug because it got it right once, which means it can solve it. I'm going to modify the program to, I don't know, maybe I want to write specific instructions if it sees this type of exercise, or give it a specific thing to do whenever it sees it. But, um I'll be back once I figure out the problem. Yep, looks correct. Come on, please work. Oh, it got It has the animations, too. Oh. Oh. Oh my god, it actually got it. Yes. Finally.
Watch from 5:46Let's go. All right, let's try it again. Come on, come on. Let's see Let's see if it was a fluke. Yes. Oh. Oh, it works. All right, let's test out if the listening works. Nice. All right, spamming it. What it hears. Oh. Oh. Oh my god, it worked. The amount of work I have to do to make this work is astonishing. But, let's go over what I changed. Number one, I made it so the program shows me what the AI is seeing. Just to make sure it's seeing the question and the answer choices correctly. And if it does, then I approve it. And if it doesn't, I tell it to stop. Ooh, shut up, nerd. Sorry, you all don't care about this, but if you do Slap butt. Ooh, we have a new exercise. Select the matching pairs. Let's see if this one works. Okay. If it does, I'll be you really No. Come on. All right, I modified the code. It should work now. Please, please, please, please, please. Yes. Could I say yes? Yes. Oh, please work. Please work. I can't believe it. Now I can just sit back and watch all these lessons get completed.
Watch from 7:06This might genuinely be the best program I've ever written. I can't believe it worked. 100% accuracy. Funny enough, I actually did have to program depending on the lesson type, which is exactly what I did not want to do in approach one and two, but it is what it is. All right, we're going to try a different language. We're going to try Spanish now. All right, now that the program works most of the time, we can move on to phase two, actually destroying Duolingo. But what is destroying mean? Now, if I had all the time in the world, I would go through every single lesson, but I'm too lazy and I'm not doing all that. So, I've decided on an alternative to destroying it. You see, every language in Duolingo has sections and you can actually skip a section by passing a test. So, if I can reach the final section, that basically means it could do all the lessons and I destroy the game and I can basically speak the language. I think that's fair and it looks like Duolingo agrees with me because if you complete a test, it completes all the lessons for you. So, I think this makes the most sense. And if you don't think that's fair, I don't really care. It's my video. So, let's move on to section two and complete the test. Whoa, this one's a long one. If the program can handle this, it's safe to say it can handle this type of exercise now. It works. Holy yep, it's set. This program's done. It's ready. Now, you're probably watching this thinking, "I want to make stupid projects like this, too." First of all, seek help. Second, you actually need to know how to code, which is where today's sponsor, Brilliant, comes in.
Watch from 8:22It's one of my favorite platforms to learn because it has thousands of interactive lessons in coding, math, AI, and science, which means instead of watching some guy at a whiteboard reading a slide, you're actually solving problems, which makes my caveman brain very happy. I've been working through their How AI Works course because of how popular it's getting for software engineers. As you can tell with this program, it covers all the essentials like LLMs, neural networks, and even NLP. It's done in such a fun interactive way, and the information is so high quality, it would have saved me a semester of suffering, which makes a lot of sense because their courses are made by world-class teachers from MIT, Harvard, and Stanford just to make sure it works for anyone, whether you're 10 years old or 110. If you want to try it out, you can get the first 30 days free using my link in the description, and you'll also get 20% off an annual premium membership. You're welcome, and have fun growing that small brain of yours. Oh my god, another failure. I'll fix this later. As long as it can pass this test, it's okay. Ugh, and it gave me three of them in a row. Perfect. Be right back. 100% is what I love to see. I am fluent in this language, after all. Time to move on to the next section, and it's safe to say it is smooth sailing from here. Oh, right, the voice lessons. Step two, speak any language in the world. Wait, what?
Watch from 9:47told you I'm qualified to build whatever I want, so I already did that. How do I do this? Ugh, you know, just just my big brain, you know, thinking and code and if statements and all that. Okay, I'm using a tool for this. You see, there's already tons of programs that let you do this already. The most popular one is is Eleven Labs, and hmm, interesting. Would you look at that? It looks like Duolingo uses this for the voices of their characters. Oh, hey. Hmm, if a language learning app is using AI voices, that means the AI voices has to have some pretty good pronunciation, right? Programmer brain, by the way. Now, 11 Labs is really easy to use. You just type the thing, and bada bing, bada boom. Minasan, konnichiwa. Watashi no namae wa fake weaboo. You can speak any language. I'll put 11 Labs in the description since I know some of you are as dumb as me and want to try it out. Now, the voices are cool and all, but this isn't what I want. I want it to sound like I'm speaking it, not some random person. And the nice thing is, you can make custom voices in 11 Labs. And so, I created my own voice. Lightning strikes with a flash that lights up the night, and just like that, I can speak multiple languages.
Watch from 11:02And I am now officially the average European. But, the issue is 11 Labs doesn't do real-time translation. Actually, I'm lying. Yes, they do. Sorry. But, only for speech-to-text, not for speech-to-speech. And it also can't interact with Duolingo. They should add that. The good news is, they have an API, which means you can make programs with it. Let me show you. Bing, bang, boom. And would you look at that? I have a program that translates whatever I give it. Windows ES But, who cares about that? It's absolutely useless. It can't interact with Duolingo. It can't do the lessons. So, what's the point of this thing? All I have to do now is connect it to the AI, so whenever it sees a voice lesson, it'll use the voice program. I think it'll be easy, but uh I think I managed to make this work. Let's see. No way that worked. That is so sick. It has a bit of an echo, I'll fix that, but oh my god, it works. I tried to find other speaking exercises in different languages, but Duolingo just doesn't have any. The only other one I found was in French, so here's this. Yeah, it works, right. I can speak any language. This part of the program is actually pretty cool. I'm not going to bore you with the actual details, but essentially, it looks at the exercise, it notices it's a speaking one, it's going to grab the question and the sentence I have to say. It passes the sentence into 11 Labs, where it's going to create the audio file of me speaking it. And here's where it gets a little interesting. I put this audio file inside a hidden audio player inside of Chrome. And once it has that audio player set up, that's when the program presses the click to speak button. The program starts playing from the hidden audio player, and to Duolingo, it sounds like someone is speaking
Watch from 12:24Pretty cool. I'm going to keep doing Spanish since it seems to be the most supported language in Duolingo, but I think it's officially time to destroy Duolingo. For real this time. For real, for real. Trust me, bro. Trust. I've made some final touches to the program. I've added an auto mode, so now it actually does everything by itself. I've also made some small improvements to the program. It should now be way faster, and the main reason is I'm using a cheaper, faster model. Before I was using the most intelligent model, but it took forever to answer, and it was also really expensive. And as much as I want to destroy Duolingo, I don't want to go homeless because of it. So, we switched over. And now the program is blazingly fast. But enough about that. Let's destroy this stupid bird. Oh, it actually got it wrong. Whatever. I'm too lazy. Let's keep going. Last section. Let's finish this up. I can't believe I've actually done it. Just like that, we've beaten every section test, which means we've completed every lesson. I really did it.
Watch from 13:55I really made a program that lets Get more with Super Duolingo. I don't need Super Duolingo. As I was saying before I was interrupted, I can't believe I actually made a program that lets me speak any language in the world. That is crazy. If I modify it a bit, it can actually be useful. Just imagine, I can modify it to add subtitles, to automatically translate, to have real-time conversation. Wow, that's actually crazy to think. There wouldn't be a language barrier anymore. You could go to any country, you can speak to anybody. Wow, I could really change the world right now. Nah, that's too much work. I'm too lazy for all that. I'm good.
Watch from 15:16Full transcript
- 0:00
I want to make a program that lets me speak any language in the world just so I don't have to use Duolingo. You see, I'm too lazy to learn a new language. I'm sorry. I just am. I'm too American for this. I have better things to do. So, I had a genius idea. I'm a programmer. Not a skilled programmer, but I can write hello world, so I can basically work at Google and make any program in the world. Why can't I create
- 0:20
a program that does all the Duolingo exercises for me? And if I can do that, that basically means I can make another program that lets me speak any language in the world, which means I never have to learn a language and I never have to touch Duolingo again. Oh my god, I'm such a genius. Step one, interacting with Duolingo. There's multiple approaches we can do for this. Approach number one,
- 0:42
Now, this approach is pretty straightforward. If you open up inspect element, you're going to see all this disgusting information. We're actually going to take advantage of this information and write a program that uses it. This is called DOM manipulation. The program is pretty straightforward in English terms. First, we're going to grab the question. Second, we're going to grab the answer choices. And then third, we're going to have an AI look at both the question and
- 1:04
the answer choices, and it's going to pick the correct answer. The AI is then going to give the correct answer to the program, and the program is going to click the answer choice. And if this program works properly, I have destroyed Duolingo. Easy peasy. And oh, would you look at that? That's the code. Yeah, the program is that simple. It has AI and everything. And the only reason why it's this simple is because Google recently added built-in AI inside the browser
- 1:26
that you can program with. Let's see if this program works. Ocha. Oh, it actually did work. Wait, what? If we click check, it's the correct answer. That's sick. This is actually pretty cool. Since I'm using Google's built-in AI inside the browser, you can literally run this code for yourself and destroy Duolingo as long as you have the most up-to-date version of Chrome. So, do
- 1:47
what you will with that information. All I have to do now is modify the program to automatically click the check button, and hopefully it'll be correct all the time, and then it's going to click the continue button. And then once it clicks those two buttons, I'm going to do like a 5-second timeout so the next question and all the answers load, and then it'll keep doing that until hopefully it completes the lesson. Chat,
- 2:07
this approach is not looking good. As you can see in this question, it says select the correct meaning, specifically for water. As you can tell by that little Bozo, the issue is that little Bozo is a whole different element. So the program is not detecting it. I don't know how, but AI still got the answer right. And I am positive it only got it correct by sheer dumb luck, cuz there's
- 2:29
no way. So I'm just going to test this program manually because I'm positive this approach is not going to work. I promise you this one's going to work fine. Sushi, noise, correct answer. Ooh, I do not think this program is going to solve this. Yeah, I thought so. Yeah, this approach is not going to work. Uh, I knew it. Approach number two.
- 2:51
The problem with this first approach is Duolingo has different types of exercises, and those exercises have different types of instructions and elements, which means I would have to write code for every type of exercise, and I'm too lazy. That's basically as much work as learning the language, so what's the point? So I had a genius idea. Let's use OCR, which stands for optical character recognition, some nerd
- 3:11
stuff, and in super simple terms, it basically lets computers read text from an image. So the plan for this approach is number one, I'm going to take a screenshot. Number two, I'm going to send that screenshot to an AI, and it's going to read what's on it. AI is smart enough to read text from an image, so it'll get the question, the instructions, and the choices. And then step number three, I'm going to
- 3:33
You're so stupid. realize that this approach is not going to work. Approach number three. Okay, the idea was I was going to tell AI to give me coordinates on where to click, and then I was going to send those coordinates to the program to click for me. But I just realized it's the exact same problem as the
- 3:53
first approach. Every exercise has different instructions, which means I would have to program different coordinates based on the exercise. But, there is some good news. We don't need this Unk OCR technology. Nowadays, AI can control your computer. Woo! So, instead of me using this caveman method of programming the exact coordinates, I can just tell AI click the button and
- 4:15
it'll click the button. Whoa! That's right, we're living in the future. All I have to do now is add some visuals so you can see what's actually happening because this kind of looks boring. It shouldn't be that difficult. I mean, it's just like HTML CSS. How hard could that This was stupid hard. It was harder to make these visuals than to make the program to destroy Duolingo. I hate myself. But, as you can see, I've added
- 4:37
some visuals so you can see what the AI is doing. And I also made it in the style of Duolingo because I thought it would be funny. This program's really cool. I'm using this thing called Stage Hand, which is a pretty new thing. It's a browser automation framework that let you control the web browser with code and like Ooh! Shut up, nerd. Sorry you had to sit through that. I know you don't care about that information. Oh, you do? Then
- 4:57
you should check out my sick newsletter called Sloth Bites. Oh, you don't know what Sloth Bites is? Sloth Bites is my free newsletter where every week I give you programming advice and news so you can stay up-to-date and not get behind. So, if you are one of those people that are serious about programming, you should definitely subscribe. Come on, subscribe. Do it.
- 5:18
It's free. It's free. It's free. Okay, so I finished up the program for Duolingo. It's a pretty straightforward program. First, it's going to go to Duolingo's website and it's going to follow this prompt that I gave it, which basically says read the question and the choices and do whatever the question says. And then once it does that, it's going to show this button and once I press the button, that's when the program is going to start. Let's test this thing. I'm going to press the
- 5:39
button now. Come on, come on. Please work. Please work. Please work. Please work. Please work. Please work. It's taking forever. Come on. Did it work? No way. Oh my god, it actually worked. Let's Okay, now we're going to try it on these other exercises. If it works on this, then the program actually works. Yes. Yes. Sushi. What? It actually got this one?
- 6:00
Yes. You again. Please. I've upgraded my program. There's no way. Huh? What do you mean? You didn't finish nothing. What? All right, let's not worry about that one. Here's a different one. Kudasai. Yes. Yes. It got that one. What? Great work. Let's make this a bit harder. Please. Oh, no.
- 6:22
Oh my god, no. Oh my god, this has to be rage bait. There's no way. Okay, so the program is somewhat successful, which is pretty good. It just can't solve this writing exercise. And I honestly don't know why. And it's the worst kind of bug because it got it right once, which means it can solve it. I'm going to modify the
- 6:43
program to, I don't know, maybe I want to write specific instructions if it sees this type of exercise, or give it a specific thing to do whenever it sees it. But, um I'll be back once I figure out the problem. Yep, looks correct. Come on, please work. Oh, it got It has the animations, too. Oh. Oh. Oh my god, it actually got
- 7:03
it. Yes. Finally. Let's go. All right, let's try it again. Come on, come on. Let's see Let's see if it was a fluke. Yes. Oh. Oh, it works. All right, let's test out if the listening works. Nice. All right, spamming it. What it hears.
- 7:24
Oh. Oh. Oh my god, it worked. The amount of work I have to do to make this work is astonishing. But, let's go over what I changed. Number one, I made it so the program shows me what the AI is seeing. Just to make sure it's seeing the question and the answer choices correctly. And if it does, then I approve it. And if it doesn't, I tell it to stop.
- 7:45
Ooh, shut up, nerd. Sorry, you all don't care about this, but if you do Slap butt. Ooh, we have a new exercise. Select the matching pairs. Let's see if this one works. Okay. If it does, I'll be you really No. Come on. All right, I modified the code. It should work now. Please, please, please, please, please. Yes.
- 8:05
Could I say yes? Yes. Oh, please work. Please work. I can't believe it. Now I can just sit back and watch all these lessons get completed. This might genuinely be the best program I've ever written. I can't believe it
- 8:28
worked. 100% accuracy. Funny enough, I actually did have to program depending on the lesson type, which is exactly what I did not want to do in approach one and two, but it is what it is. All right, we're going to try a different language. We're going to try Spanish now. All right, now that the program works most of the time, we can move on to phase two, actually destroying Duolingo. But what is destroying mean?
- 8:49
Now, if I had all the time in the world, I would go through every single lesson, but I'm too lazy and I'm not doing all that. So, I've decided on an alternative to destroying it. You see, every language in Duolingo has sections and you can actually skip a section by passing a test. So, if I can reach the final section, that basically means it could do all the lessons and I destroy the game and I can basically speak the
- 9:10
language. I think that's fair and it looks like Duolingo agrees with me because if you complete a test, it completes all the lessons for you. So, I think this makes the most sense. And if you don't think that's fair, I don't really care. It's my video. So, let's move on to section two and complete the test. Whoa, this one's a long one. If the program can handle this, it's safe to say it can handle this type of exercise now.
- 9:31
It works. Holy yep, it's set. This program's done. It's ready. Now, you're probably watching this thinking, "I want to make stupid projects like this, too." First of all, seek help. Second, you actually need to know how to code, which is where today's sponsor, Brilliant, comes in. It's one of my favorite platforms to learn because it has thousands of interactive lessons in coding, math, AI,
- 9:52
and science, which means instead of watching some guy at a whiteboard reading a slide, you're actually solving problems, which makes my caveman brain very happy. I've been working through their How AI Works course because of how popular it's getting for software engineers. As you can tell with this program, it covers all the essentials like LLMs, neural networks, and even NLP. It's done in such a fun interactive way, and the information is so high
- 10:12
quality, it would have saved me a semester of suffering, which makes a lot of sense because their courses are made by world-class teachers from MIT, Harvard, and Stanford just to make sure it works for anyone, whether you're 10 years old or 110. If you want to try it out, you can get the first 30 days free using my link in the description, and you'll also get 20% off an annual premium membership. You're welcome, and have fun growing that small brain of
- 10:34
yours. Oh my god, another failure. I'll fix this later. As long as it can pass this test, it's okay. Ugh, and it gave me three of them in a row. Perfect. Be right back. 100% is what I love to see. I am fluent in this language, after all. Time to move on to the next section, and it's safe to say it is smooth sailing from
- 10:55
here. Oh, right, the voice lessons. Step two, speak any language in the world. Wait, what? told you I'm qualified to build whatever I want, so I already did that.
- 11:17
How do I do this? Ugh, you know, just just my big brain, you know, thinking and code and if statements and all that. Okay, I'm using a tool for this. You see, there's already tons of programs that let you do this already. The most popular one is is Eleven Labs, and hmm, interesting. Would you look at that? It looks like Duolingo uses this for the voices of their characters.
- 11:38
Oh, hey. Hmm, if a language learning app is using AI voices, that means the AI voices has to have some pretty good pronunciation, right? Programmer brain, by the way. Now, 11 Labs is really easy to use. You just type the thing, and bada bing, bada boom. Minasan, konnichiwa. Watashi no namae wa
- 11:59
fake weaboo. You can speak any language. I'll put 11 Labs in the description since I know some of you are as dumb as me and want to try it out. Now, the voices are cool and all, but this isn't what I want. I want it to sound like I'm speaking it, not some random person. And the nice thing is, you can make custom voices in 11 Labs. And so, I created my own voice. Lightning strikes with a flash that lights up the night, and just
- 12:19
like that, I can speak multiple languages. And I am now officially the average European. But, the issue is 11 Labs doesn't do real-time translation. Actually, I'm lying. Yes, they do. Sorry. But, only for speech-to-text, not for speech-to-speech. And it also can't interact with Duolingo. They should add that. The good news is, they
- 12:40
have an API, which means you can make programs with it. Let me show you. Bing, bang, boom. And would you look at that? I have a program that translates whatever I give it. Windows ES But, who cares about that? It's absolutely useless. It can't interact with Duolingo. It can't do the lessons. So, what's the point of this thing? All I have to do now is connect it to the AI, so whenever it sees a voice lesson, it'll use the voice program. I think
- 13:02
it'll be easy, but uh I think I managed to make this work. Let's see. No way that worked. That is so sick. It has a bit of an echo, I'll fix that, but oh my god, it works. I tried to find other speaking exercises in different languages, but Duolingo just doesn't have any. The only other one I found was in French, so here's this.
- 13:24
Yeah, it works, right. I can speak any language. This part of the program is actually pretty cool. I'm not going to bore you with the actual details, but essentially, it looks at the exercise, it notices it's a speaking one, it's going to grab the question and the sentence I have to say. It passes the sentence into 11 Labs, where it's going to create the audio file of me speaking it. And here's where it gets a little interesting. I put this audio file inside a hidden audio player inside of
- 13:44
Chrome. And once it has that audio player set up, that's when the program presses the click to speak button. The program starts playing from the hidden audio player, and to Duolingo, it sounds like someone is speaking Pretty cool. I'm going to keep doing Spanish since it seems to be the most supported language in Duolingo, but I think it's officially time to destroy Duolingo. For real this time. For real, for real. Trust me, bro. Trust. I've
- 14:05
made some final touches to the program. I've added an auto mode, so now it actually does everything by itself. I've also made some small improvements to the program. It should now be way faster, and the main reason is I'm using a cheaper, faster model. Before I was using the most intelligent model, but it took forever to answer, and it was also really expensive. And as much as I want to destroy Duolingo, I don't want to go homeless because of it. So, we switched
- 14:27
over. And now the program is blazingly fast. But enough about that. Let's destroy this stupid bird. Oh, it actually got it wrong. Whatever. I'm too lazy. Let's keep going.
- 14:56
Last section. Let's finish this up. I can't believe I've actually done it. Just like that, we've beaten every section test, which means we've completed every lesson. I really did it. I really made a program that lets
- 15:17
Get more with Super Duolingo. I don't need Super Duolingo. As I was saying before I was interrupted, I can't believe I actually made a program that lets me speak any language in the world. That is crazy. If I modify it a bit, it can actually be useful. Just imagine, I can modify it to add subtitles, to automatically translate, to have real-time conversation. Wow, that's actually crazy to think. There
- 15:37
wouldn't be a language barrier anymore. You could go to any country, you can speak to anybody. Wow, I could really change the world right now. Nah, that's too much work. I'm too lazy for all that. I'm good.
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I'm too lazy to learn a new language. So I did what any reasonable programmer would do - I built a program to beat Duolingo for me. All of it. Every lesson, every test, every speaking exercise. In multiple languages. Using my cloned AI voice.
Turns out destroying a language learning app is harder than learning the language. Almost.
00:00 I'm Too Lazy To Learn A Language
00:36 Approach 1: DOM Automation
02:09 That Didn't Work
03:04 Approach 2: OCR
03:39 That Didn't Work Either
04:00 Approach 3: AI Controls The Browser
05:20 Testing The Program
08:41 Actually DESTORYING Duolingo
09:37 Speaking Every Language With AI
10:58 I Can Now Speak Any Language
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