Translatotron: An End-to-End Speech-to-Speech Translation Model

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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