Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
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Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
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Re: Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
#2This is cool and one of the applications of LLMs that I'm actually looking forward to: accent training when acquiring a new language, particularly hearing what you would sound like without an accent!
That said, I found the recording of Victor's speech after practicing with the recording of his own unaccented voice to be far less intelligible than his original recording.
Looking forward to seeing the developments in this particular application.
Re: Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
#3This is so cool. Real-time accent feedback is something language learners have never had throughout all of human history, until now.
Along similar lines, it would be useful to map a speaker's vowels in vowel-space (and likewise for consonants?) to compare native to non-native speakers.
I can't wait until something like this is available for Japanese.
Re: Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
#4Is it just me, or did the sound files get hugged-to-death?
Re: Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
#5What the vector-space data gets right, and what the human commentary tends not to, is the idea that accents are a complex statistical distribution. You should be careful about the concept of a "default" or "neutral" accent. Telecommunications has spent the 20th century flattening accents together, as has accent discrimination. There's always the tendency for people to say "my accent is the neutral standard against which all others should be measured".
Re: Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
#6This is so cool. Real-time accent feedback is something language learners have never had throughout all of human history, until now. Along similar lines, it would be useful to map a speaker's vowels in vowel-space (and likewise for consonants?) to compare native to non-native speakers. I can't wait until something like this is available for Japanese.
> something language learners have never had throughout all of human history
.. unless they had access to a native speaker and/or vocal coach? While an automated Henry Higgins is nifty, it's not something humans haven't been able to do themselves.
Re: Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
#7What a great AI use-case! At first, I felt excited ...
But then I read their privacy policy. They want permission to save all of my audio interactions for all eternity. It's so sad that I will never try out their (admittedly super cool) AI tech.
Re: Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
#8What a great AI use-case! At first, I felt excited ... But then I read their privacy policy. They want permission to save all of my audio interactions for all eternity. It's so sad that I will never try out their (admittedly super cool) AI tech.
You can reach out and request your data to be deleted at any time.
Re: Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
#9What the vector-space data gets right, and what the human commentary tends not to, is the idea that accents are a complex statistical distribution. You should be careful about the concept of a "default" or "neutral" accent. Telecommunications has spent the 20th century flattening accents together, as has accent discrimination. There's always the tendency for people to say " my accent is the neutral standard against w…
> There's always the tendency for people to say "my accent is the neutral standard against which all others should be measured".
You can measure this by mutual intelligibility with other accent groupings.
Re: Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English
#10Damn, this is really cool.