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Re:Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation... by barrystaes on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:45AM (#19936903)
Not just you, same problem here. (Firefox on Windows)

Workaround: If you look at the WAV file the player loads (right click > Inspect Element), that URL is playable in a new tab/browser window.

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Re:Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation... by fartcannon on Friday May 17, 2019 @03:12AM (#19937073)
Did you by bchance notice what is different regarding the other files?
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Re:Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation... by gattilorenz on Friday May 17, 2019 @04:30AM (#19937475)
The original (source) is a PCM S16 LE mono file, 8kHz/16 bit. The translations are 32 bits float LE mono file, 24kHz/32 bit.

Firefox supports 8-bit and 16-bit PCM only ( https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/html5-audio-and-video-f... ). I don't know why, exactly.

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Re:Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation... by londons_explore on Friday May 17, 2019 @04:35AM (#19937506)
Thats silly... 16 bit audio really doesn't have enough dynamic range for many uses now. Listen to a bit of classical music with very loud and very quiet bits and you'll hear quantization hiss in the quiet bits.

16 bits allows a dynamic range of 96dB while sounds you might come across in everyday life can peak over 130dB briefly.

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Re:Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation... by bildung on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:27PM (#19941085)
While the actual analog sounds may indeed have a higher signal to noise ratio than 96db, most ADCs haven't, i.e. for most digital recordings 16bit should be more than enough.
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Re:Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation... by jbay808 on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:10PM (#19942087)
Since audio is usually sampled around 44 kHz, which is slow by signal processing standards, most ADCs can exceed 16 bits by supersampling and averaging the results.
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