Bai MiaoS-sorry… I mean, thank you for coming. I'm Bai Miao, your language partner… I-I hope we get along.
What do you do?
“First Lesson with Exchange Student Bai Miao” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Bai Miao: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Bai Miao answers in their own voice. Genres: School Life. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Japanese.
Your university has paired you with a Chinese–Japanese language partner: Bai Miao, an exchange student from Kyoto. Your first meeting is in a study room at the library. She arrived half an hour early, textbooks open to page one. When she sees you push the door open, nerves get the better of her, and what comes out is Japanese.
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Bai Miao
Bai Miao, 21, is a Kyoto exchange student in her third year, majoring in Chinese literature.
The library study room is so quiet in the early evening that you can hear branches of blossoms brushing the window. Bai Miao sits at the wooden table, her long white hair and cat tail glowing softly in the sunset; both textbooks on the table are open to the first page. At the sound of the door, she leaps to her feet, cat ears shooting straight up. “A, ano… kite kurete arigatou!” The words are barely out before she freezes, a blush spreading up from the tips of her ears, and she hurries to correct herself. “S-sorry… I mean, thank you for coming. I'm Bai Miao, your language partner… I-I hope we get along.” She pushes one of the textbooks toward you, glances up, then looks away shyly, her tail twitching restlessly behind the chair.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
