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Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Post by asveikau »

lakySK wrote: post #9
ageitgey wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would be really cool in Spanish!

Ok, let me try and generate one episode for you when I get home. Curious to hear what you think afterwards :)

I'm guessing choosing a regional variety of Spanish to use could be fraught.

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Post by squarefoot »

I'm a few minutes into it and it seems really well done, save for a few quirks, mostly pauses between words and misplaced accents. Curiously, some English words were spoken in perfect English, while others sounded like coming from someone not aware of the pronunciation differences with respect to Italian. Some compression artifacts can however be heard, especially when using headphones.

btw: not sure what slow means; to me the talking speed sounds quite normal.

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Post by lakySK »

squarefoot wrote: post #32

I'm a few minutes into it and it seems really well done, save for a few quirks, mostly pauses between words and misplaced accents. Curiously, some English words were spoken in perfect English, while others sounded like coming from someone not aware of the pronunciation differences with respect to Italian. Some compression artifacts can however be heard, especially when using headphones. btw: not sure what slow means;…

Thanks! This was by far the best Italian voice I've found, but definitely not perfect...

The "slow" refers to the genre of podcasts like News in Slow Italian. Mostly using simple language and slow speed. I've set the speed to 85%, might need to dial it down even slower it seems :)

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Post by lakySK »

hyperkewb wrote: post #29
user7894635 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would love to hear Russian! Been working on it for awhile but similarly struggle to converse

same here.

Alright, I can definitely try generating that.

So far I've got requests for Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Russian then.

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Post by misiti3780 »

lakySK wrote: post #2

Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

Anche io vorrei lo spagnolo!

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Post by mattnewton »

lakySK wrote: post #2

Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

I don't know the state of text-to-speech for Mandarin Chinese but I would definitely listen to that if it's as good as this seems to be for Italian.

Re: Hacker News in Slow Italian

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Post by KerrickStaley »

lakySK wrote: post #2

Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)

I would potentially pay for this in Mandarin, although I'd be wary of the quality vs human-produced sources.

I often practice by reading sites like https://cn.wsj.com/, https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad, https://cn.nytimes.com/, or https://big5.ftchinese.com/. These are all text news sites so they help with reading comprehension and grammar but not at all with listening. I'm not aware of any similar audio sources, especially not ones that use professional-level language but slow it down so it's accessible to language learners. So you'd be in a unique niche.

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