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Whenever time permits, I have a (bad) habit of viewing source code of new website. In this case, I found this on this website: (haven't read the js yet to see what's the true intent but surely a sign of horrible engineering) edit- seems like remix customizations. "remove-watch-video-requirement": { "defaultValue": false, "rules": [{ "condition": { "env": "prod", "email": { "$in": [" @gmail.com", "redacted"] } }, "for…
Remove the email addresses from your post!
This was a big confidence booster for me as when I first started learning English, people would complement me on how well I spoke English, but I took that as my accent was still detectable. It's only been in the past 5 years that people assumed I was American and made no comment on my English at all, until I disclosed that English was my second language. It's usually certain words that give me trouble, like "cupboard…
Romanian/Albanian, couldn't fail more
i'm english - it gave me 99% danish, 1% swedish. hmmm
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I don't follow. Why is the data they are getting from this better than the billions of hours of captioned voice data available from youtube/tiktok/instagram/whatever?
I don't mean to suggest that this particular toy is much use. I just mean you should not give random internet games standardised samples of your voice, for this reason. It's a standardised sample, already correlated to text, close to the microphone, for one thing. You're just making it easier for them. I mean I suppose you can use "like and subscribe", "without further ado", and "let's get started" as standardised sa…
I suspect they use the same technique for guessing the accent - detect which sounds are not well pronounced (and they have no interest in distinguishing accents amont native speakers).
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I don't follow. Why is the data they are getting from this better than the billions of hours of captioned voice data available from youtube/tiktok/instagram/whatever?
I don't mean to suggest that this particular toy is much use. I just mean you should not give random internet games standardised samples of your voice, for this reason. It's a standardised sample, already correlated to text, close to the microphone, for one thing. You're just making it easier for them. I mean I suppose you can use "like and subscribe", "without further ado", and "let's get started" as standardised sa…