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Over time, as these "synthetic accents" gain wide spread adoption, would the main stream pronunciation also adopt such an accent? It's certainly interesting to think about.
I wonder how this compares with codec2[0] which is decent at around 3kbps and can go even lower. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec_2
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Off topic but how do you put images on ipfs and what’s the advantage over e.g. Imgur?
If you upload and then link to an image on Imgur and the person clicking the link has not run Imgur's javascript yet within $timeperiod, the image will not display. Instead you'll be given javascript to run. Cloudflare as a gateway is distasteful and this won't last long, but for now at least when you click an ipfs image over cloudflare you get an image and not javascript code.
I've just taken a minute to confirm what my ears told me in Audacity. Please have a look at this screenshot: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/Qma41RMzieQ6ZGdGem9rLxnxEL1... The Lyra version is clearly much louder. This is a serious problem and it borders on being reasonable to call it "cheating". It's well known in the audio biz that if you ask people to compare two experiences, and one of them is a bit louder than t…
Excellent catch. To be precise you need a measure of perceptual loudness rather than raw waveform excursion, but I would expect the results to be in line with what you've found. > It's well known in the audio biz that if you ask people to compare two experiences, and one of them is a bit louder than the other, people will say that the louder one was better, or came through more clearly, or whatever it is you're tryin…
When Google's announcement [1] was posted a few days ago, I listened to their samples and heard an odd effect in the "chocolate bread" sample (the video chat example) [1], which is not mirrored in this article. On that sample, I felt [2] that the Lyra version exaggerates the pronunciation of the phrase 'with chocolate' in a way that meaningfully differs from the speaker's original. It weakens the voiced 'th' to nothi…
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This is a fantastic question. I agree with you that we're slowing boiling the frog (and the frog is ourselves) in accepting more and more latency in our real-time communications. I think the answer for Lyra is that latency is a concern, but maybe at this stage not as much of a concern as it could be. I'm only guessing, though based on this [0]: > The basic architecture of the Lyra codec is quite simple. Features, or…
Google Chrome has a latency of 20ms to just repeat back audio on the local device . That is, with no networking, and no processing, it takes 20ms for any information to from microphone back out to speakers.
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I spent the last year and a half living about as far from my home city as possible (Melbourne > Edinburgh) (Currently in quarantine) and the latency of phone calls drives me nuts . The huge gaps between people speaking, and the complete change in conversation flow since you have to speak in huge continuous paragraphs. The constant "go ahead" , "no you go" etc... Ugh. But I agree with you... nobody seems to care excep…
I also agree. Sometimes I speak to work colleagues who are on BT headsets and it must add what feels like 100ms to the call. I can sometimes hear the end of my sentence as I speak. Infuriating.
"Restricted to a narrow frequency range of 300–3,300 Hz, called the voiceband, which is much less than the human hearing range of 20–20,000 Hz"
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I also agree. Sometimes I speak to work colleagues who are on BT headsets and it must add what feels like 100ms to the call. I can sometimes hear the end of my sentence as I speak. Infuriating.
I don't understand how Bluetooth has made it this far for phone calls. It has two modes: unintelligible quality and bad latency, or decent quality and ludicrous latency. The entire standard is an advertisement for Airpods.