Wait pan isn't cognate with the romance words for bread?? plot twist of the century

elevenlabs has a new free (for now) speech to text service! if you set language to "detect", it can transcribe toki pona! it even nailed my tokiponization of elevenlabs. really cool that emergent knowledge of toki pona happened here! also it detected it as "Esperanto" the second time, lol

In my experience, with the right guidance to lead the LLM to the right "headspace", so to speak, Claude does significantly better than just hopping into a fresh chat and asking it to translate:

It's still not quite there, but I think it's pretty good at expressing thoughts in toki pona!

lipu anpa li toki.
sike majuna suli li pakala lon ma mi.
ni li ma insa li lon kon len.
jan lawa Malika pi tenpo ale li weka.
pimeja pi ilo moli la, jan Katowin suno li moli nanpa wan.
kili pi jan Malika li jan sewi li kama jo e kipisi pi sike majuna.
wawa sin li ike e lawa li open e tenpo pakala.

jan Sonja li kama a

big mouth, funko pops — the two most hideous styles imaginable. and yet, combined, their repugnances soften the other, and birth a thing somehow more palatable than the sum of its parts. an idol of repugnance dethroned from local minima and cast shrieking to the canny valley of its own loss function