Re:Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
by scraptor on Monday October 30, 2023 @04:31PM
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Very nice idea and great execution.
Sometimes it includes clips where the generated subtitles are wrong and the word is actually a different one with similar pronunciation (German heiß -> heißt for a lot of this).
Which brings to mind an interesting bias where it leaves out any examples that the AI transcription didn't recognise as the word, thus presenting only the "canonical" pronunciation according to whatever process trained the AI and potentially propagating AI artifacts into the speech of actual humans.
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Re:Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
by sinkwool on Monday October 30, 2023 @05:57PM
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Or it could be a typo (as in man-made) My guess is that they only use Youtube videos that already have subtitles in the target language.
But I'm curious to know how exactly they've built their database of videos/transcripts. I wonder if they curate the videos manually at all.