Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
by jychang on Friday February 19, 2021 @08:09AM
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This is a dumb fight to pick. Dude just wants some ML software to figure out how to change accents.
Maybe he wants to change the accent to a Texas accent, or the Queen's english, who cares, it's the ML part that's interesting.
Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
by jessriedel on Friday February 19, 2021 @12:15PM
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> Notice that, for the case of English, most speakers are not native, by a huge margin!
I'm well aware, and this does not rebut any of my points.
> I, for one, tend to find most non-native English speakers vastly easier to understand than many native speakers.
That "many" native speakers in a language of hundreds of millions of speakers are hard to understand does not challenge the claim that a non-native accent brought closer to any native accent, much less the mean native accent, will for the large majority if listeners be easier rather than harder to understand.
Re:Perseverance Rover lands on Mars [video]
by _-___________-_ on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:28AM
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What is the "mean native accent" for English? Would it be possible to somehow synthesise that? I'd love to hear what it sounds like!
Notice that, for the case of English, most speakers are not native, by a huge margin! Native English speakers are a biased minority, and with a lot of variation within. Not sure that an "average native" accent is a useful concept at all. I, for one, tend to find most non-native English speakers vastly easier to understand than many native speakers.