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Re: Google Beatbox

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Post by eru »

ramidarigaz wrote: post #4
MatthewRayfield wrote: post #2

Can anybody explain why this works in German? It seems like in other languages it just reads out the letters.

I'm guessing it's because those letter combinations are actually sounds in German, but not in any other languages (that I know of).

Not really. At least not on a naive level. None of "pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk" occurs in any German word.

Re: Google Beatbox

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Post by jjcm »

s1w wrote: post #11

yo i gotta hear that one more time man: http://translate.google.com/#de|de|zwkkzwkkzwkkzwkk.%20pv%20...

Alright. I'm impressed with the rewind.

Re: Google Beatbox

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Post by hboon »

bbatsell wrote: post #15
hboon wrote: post #8

Listen doesn't work in Safari 5.0.3?

Uses an invisible Flash object, so if you're using ClickToFlash or other Flash-blocking plugin you'll have to manually load the object.

That worked! Thanks. Strange that autoloading of invisible Flash objects was enabled.

Re: Google Beatbox

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Post by w1ntermute »

RyanMcGreal wrote: post #14

It also passes first year German with flying colours: http://translate.google.com/#de|en|Der%20himmel%20ist%20blau... .

Because they train it with EU documents, which are required by law to be translated into all the languages of the member countries. Since the documents are made available for public use, machine translation between European languages has become significantly better in recent years because the EU documents are being used to train the software.

Re: Google Beatbox

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Post by dkarl »

dzohrob wrote: post #7
MatthewRayfield wrote: post #2

Can anybody explain why this works in German? It seems like in other languages it just reads out the letters.

It also works in Italian and Spanish, and sorta works in French -- I'm sure it has to do with the phonemes in each language and how the languages are implemented in the text-to-speech algorithm.

Chinese sounds like rapping. "I say H crazy":

http://translate.google.com/#zh-CN|zh-CN|pv%20zk%20bschk%20p...

Greek just reads the name of each letter:

http://translate.google.com/#el|el|pv%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20zk...

Re: Google Beatbox

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Post by RossM »

hboon wrote: post #16
bbatsell wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uses an invisible Flash object, so if you're using ClickToFlash or other Flash-blocking plugin you'll have to manually load the object.

That worked! Thanks. Strange that autoloading of invisible Flash objects was enabled.

I don't think it is, I think it's JavaScript interacting with the Flash object.
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