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How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters

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Re: How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters

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Thank you for sharing! the 3d visual was an interesting application of the UMAP technique. Is there a way to subscribe to these blog posts for auto-notification?

Yeah, if only there was a protocol for that.

It would have taken you a second more to type out "RSS", and turn a sarcastic comment into an informative one.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re: How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters

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The source code for this is unminified and very readable if you’re one of the rare few who has interesting latent spaces to visualize. https://accent-explorer.boldvoice.com/script.js?v=5

Nothing too secret in there! We anonymized everything and anyway it's just a basic Plotly plot. Feel free to check it out.

Re: How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters

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Apparently Persian and Russian are close. Which is surprising to say the least. I know people keep getting confused about how Portuguese from Portugal and Russian sound close yet the Persian is new to me.

When I went to Portugal I was struck by how much Portuguese there does sound like Spanish with a Russian accent!

Re: How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters

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post #17

Apparently Persian and Russian are close. Which is surprising to say the least. I know people keep getting confused about how Portuguese from Portugal and Russian sound close yet the Persian is new to me.

When I went to Portugal I was struck by how much Portuguese there does sound like Spanish with a Russian accent!

Part of this is the "dark L" sound

Re: How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters

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Apparently Persian and Russian are close. Which is surprising to say the least. I know people keep getting confused about how Portuguese from Portugal and Russian sound close yet the Persian is new to me.

I thought I was the only one who perceived an audible similarity between Portuguese and Russian.
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