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Re:Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI by wazoox on Thursday September 22, 2022 @01:15PM (#32941841)
Depends on the way you're pronouncing it maybe. To be intelligible IMO it must be read differently from a modern text, with well sounding liaisons, and all vowels very distinct: "un" sounds differently from "in", "â" clearly differs from "a", "ai" and "è" from "é" and for instance the "e" in "étendues" must be pronounced, though not loudly.

My test gives that, much better than yours:

Mes *rêverants* pères, mes lettres n'avaient pas accoutumé de se suivre de si près ni d'être si étendues. Le peu de temps que j'ai eu a été cause de l'un et de l'autre. Je n'ai fait celle aussi plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de *l'af*faire plus courte. La raison qui m'a obligé de me *ra*ter vous est mieux connue qu'à moi. Vos réponses vous réussiss*ez* mal. Vous avez bien fait de changer de méthode. Mais je ne sais si vous avez bien choisi et si le monde ne dira pas que vous avez eu peur des bénédict*eurs*.

Re:Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI by bambax on Friday September 23, 2022 @07:06AM (#32950275)
Curious. As mentioned I did three tests, two which went pretty well and this one that went bad. I'm French and enunciated the three tests in the exact same way. It's possible there was a technical glitch in this one (that I erroneously attributed to the language of the 17th century)... Will have to try again.