Some changes to German language since a Convai Unity SDK V3 to V4 update

What do you need help with?

Question

Issue area

Character Description / Speaking Style

Impact

Normal - something is not working as expected

Character ID

3a28ace8-bb1e-11f0-b031-42010a7be025

Session ID

d1f5bd7b-a61c-4596-aaf8-7e63847a91ba

Where does it happen?

Unity SDK

Short summary

Had feedback that the way the character speaks German is different since I updated the Unity Convai SDK

Recent character changes

Hi Convai :+1:

I’ve had feedback that the way the character speaks German is different since I updated the Unity Convai SDK, this is an example of some of it :

"Suki’s speech is sometimes so unclear that she’s unintelligible, and on top of that, there’s that awful dialect. There’s also still stuttering and dropouts. I’ll reinstall the previous version tomorrow. It seems the developer has incorporated a German language with a (I think Swiss) dialect. I suspect only the German version is affected, because in your video it sounded like the old Suki. "

and

“Bro suki in german sounds dutch”

It seems that the characters German is now not the same as it was before the SDK update but I can’t speak German so cannot confirm this unfortunately. I do trust what these users say though.

Is this a real thing because without speaking German I cannot tell for myself? Is there something I can do about it, etc?

User message or prompt

They were just conversing naturally.

Current response

The characters seems to have some sort of strange dialect or accent of another language, please see the comment above for details.

Expected response

In German with a German accent, like what was happening with Convai Unity SDK V3.x

Steps to reproduce

  1. Speak in German to the character.

I checked the relevant documentation, resources, and similar forum posts before posting.

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I confirm that I did not include API keys, tokens, passwords, secrets, private character data, private conversation logs, or customer data.

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This is not related to the Unity SDK version.

On convai.com, the new Playground uses WebRTC, while the old Playground uses grpc. Could you try the same character in both the old and new Playgrounds and let us know how the German voice sounds in each one?

Ok I will do, I won’t be able to tell but what I will do is record me asking the character to speak German in each Playground and then share those recordings with the native German speaker to see what they think, will do that within the next 24 hours, thanks.

Hi K3, its the German in the new playground that is the issue, the old playground (legacy) German is ok.

Could you please try again?

Ok thanks will do, I will ask for feedback from a German user.

Fixed! Thanks so much :heart_eyes: