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Michael Rumiantsau

Do People Say — Type in a phrase and see how native English speakers use it

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A full-text search engine of English spoken corpus.

Find the context where English word or phrase is used or check if it is used by English speakers at all. Not sure if it's valid or not? Give it a try too!

Here're a few sample queries:

https://dopeoplesay.com/q/hold-back-from

https://dopeoplesay.com/q/keep-up-the-work

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Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
Hey ProductHunt, the creator of DoPeopleSay is here! The project is my attempt to help non-native English speakers to achieve better writing. As a non-native speaker myself, I often struggled to figure out if I use a word or phrase correctly. I used to google the phrase but it didn't quite work all the time. That's how I came across an idea to build a user-friendly full-text search service of spoken English. It took me a few weeks to build it and now I'm here (quite surprisingly thanks to @micrum). The service helps me a lot in my everyday writing. I hope it will helpful for you too! Looking forward to your feedback.
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@micrum @tyjayo Sorry for that! It should be fixed now. I was moving the server closer to Japan because the service got quite popular there.
Michael Rumiantsau
Hunter
As a non-native speaker, I am always looking for ways to improve my English and DoPeopleSay is a kind of tool that could help me eliminate grammar and style errors (way better than Google exact search :)
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@micrum, thanks for hunting the project! It's still in a very raw state but I'm glad to hear that it's helpful!
Alexey Dubrov

And anyway a good start, and the project is already helpful. Hope to see it will grow and become more powerful.

Pros:

Much better then Google for search by spoken word

Cons:

would like to have more smart search

Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
Thanks Alexey! Thanks for the review and being an early user!
Boris Mossounov
DoPeopleSay is a great project. What usually differentiates native speaker from non-native? Non-natives use 'outdated' version of language, the one they were taught in schools by non-native speaking teachers. When people start to communicate with native speakers they hear new phrases and words, but not always do they know how to use them correctly. So why this project is so cool. Right now it uses Reddit as it's source of a live 'up to date' language. The way real people do speak right now. On 'search' DPS shows different fragments with various contexts, thus user gets a full picture on how to use phrase in question.
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@chayka Thanks, Boris! Please, ping me if you get any ideas on how to improve the project!
Boris Mossounov
@henadzit You could somehow add a shortcut to google translate to your service. For instance 'search google translate' on any word click. Would be very handy.
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@chayka sounds like a great idea! Will do!
Gökşah Taşyürek

I always use google translate. And sometimes i need to see how the word or phrase used in sentence. So i use google and social medya for usage of phrase.

Pros:

it self :)

Cons:

translating search term to other language will be very good for me. But this s not cons actually.

Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
Thanks, Gökşah! I hope the product is going to be useful for you!
Lena Lena

DPS is so much better than just a random google search (yes, as a non-native English speaker I used to google perfect words combinations in phrases I wasn't sure about). The other thing that is painful for non natives is using proper prepositions. DPS helps me with that, too.

Pros:

Simplicity

Cons:

Haven't found any

Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
Thanks, Lena! It makes me happy to hear that it's useful for someone. I really didn't think that it's gonna be used much by anyone except me.
artem litvinov
Hey @henadzit, are planning to incorporate more formal (literature) datasets into the app?
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@artem_litvinov, yes, for sure! I'm thinking about adding content from Wikipedia and magazines. Now it's mostly comments from Reddit, so it's quite informal and, to be honest, sometimes inappropriate. Looking at you, Reddit!
Eugene Krivdyuk

Would be nice to see existing alternatives aside with what I searched for, including usage statistics for both.

Pros:

Great mixture of "humanised approach" and technology. Much more helpful than google translate for spoken phrases search.

Cons:

Nothing negative, just some room for improvement and new features.

Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
Thanks, Eugene! That's a great suggestion.
Dmitry Kaigorodov
Use it every day so far. Thank you!
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@kuolldev, thank you! By the way, Dmitry is a creator of a pretty cool startup http://www.kuoll.com/. Check it out!
Agnieszka
Sweet mother of God, I really need this ;)
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@aga_jaskiewicz, hearing this makes me really happy!
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@petergreeny That's true. There is so much room for improvement. I have some ideas on collecting statistics about phrase usage and giving an answer based on that. It would require much bigger dataset but would allow using online spoken English.
Surjith S M
Great work! Here are my two cents. @henadzit I would also like to see synonyms of the word they use instead. eg: if I search for "film", I would also like to see if people are mostly using "movie" Sameway, If I'm typing a big text, i would also like to see if there are any quick single word I can use instead. eg: "slow-moving or inactive" can be called "sluggish"
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@surjithctly Thanks for the feedback and great suggestions! Synonyms are on top of my priorities. I'm adding "shortening" to my Trello. Thanks!
Anna Komok
@henadzit hey! Recently my friend sent me a link to dopeoplesay.com and now it's my favorite tool. It's extremely useful for non-native speakers.
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@anna_komok I'm glad to hear that it's useful! I'll try to keep up the work!
Dmitry Kaigorodov

Very easy to use. I immediately understand if a phrase correct or not

Pros:

Very fast, simple

Cons:

Would love to see better suggestions when I'm wrong

Aleh Tsikhanau
I like it! Thank you
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@ethnoza Thank you, Aleh!
Alexandr Elhovenko

Better than google translate or google search. Works fast so it can be used any time.

Pros:

Woohoo, helps non-native (me) looks like a native :)

Cons:

Would be nice to see a url to actual source on reddit so I can check the context. Maybe it makes sense to add wikipedia as a source.

Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
Thanks, Alexandr! I'll add this feature for sure!
Tepes Ovidiu
Heck yeah, this is great! Thanks for making DPS
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@ovidiutepes no problem! Thank you for the feedback!
Vlad Korobov
@henadzit could you tell us all sources in which search is performed? Could you share any plans?
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@vladkorobov, now it's really just one month of Reddit's comments. But I want badly to extend the dataset with more formal language and offline language. I want to take some time to improve the search engine. Now it's rudimentary and fails on more complex queries. Ideally, I want it to validate whole sentences. Autocomplete is a must too.
Simone Wong
Awesome tool for non-native speakers! 😍 Definitely going to make use of this. Would be cool to have a vote-down system or a way to report when results aren't valid.
Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
@simonewym Thanks! I like the idea!
Cyd

Sometimes, you have the word in mind but could not figure out the better way of delivering its usage. One would end up Googling for phrases hoping for the best lines to appear. Often, you have to pay the page a visit for better understanding as the exact words do not appear on the list. And sometimes, they aren't just the ones you're looking for. This, so far, provides you the lines, in a snap :)

Pros:

Simple and fast

Cons:

Perhaps, some room for improvement still not clinging up to my thoughts. Thus, none, so far

Henadzi Tsaryk
Maker
Thanks, Cyd!