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Post by anadalakra »

77pt77 wrote: post #197
anadalakra wrote: post #70

Fun to see this in the wild! I'm one of the co-founders of BoldVoice, AMA :) p.s. I'm Albanian and it guesses either Albanian or English for me, sometimes randomly Spanish.

What do you have to say about all the claims this is just a pretext to clone voices for nefarious ends?

Conspiracy theories are fun! But we're a language learning app (YC s21). We help non native English speakers to work on their accents so they can speak English confidently. The accent oracle is a marketing tool for us to get in front of new users.

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Post by jszymborski »

tasty_freeze wrote: post #209
jszymborski wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a similar experience, but my impression is that Parisians have little patience for accents in general. People elsewhere in France where I've visited (Aix-en-provence, Lyon, Toulouse) had no trouble chatting with me. Also want to note that I am not passing judgement, I am sure I might become a bit brusque with tourists if Montreal had the same volume.

My wife was a French major in college and spent a year in Aix in the mid 80s. She didn't really enjoy the experience -- although her grammar and vocab were fine, she had enough of an accent that people treated her as an outsider. On the way out of the country she stopped in Paris for a few days to take it in. She went into some shop and the proprietor asked my wife if she needed help. My wife replied asked about some…

Thanks, that's a great story.

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Post by bdjsiqoocwk »

bossyTeacher wrote: post #165
jampa wrote: post #30

I knew my accent was strong, but I didn't expect to get 100% Portuguese, which is strange since Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Maybe it considers both accents to be Portuguese? A fun fact: When using Whisper by OpenAI, there seems to be a ~1% chance that all my text, which was spoken entirely in English, is automatically transcribed and translated…

> Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Surely you mean the opposite? Portugal is literally next to Spain and both languages have coexisted since they were both born following Rome's fall. Both Galician and Portugal's Portugese are likely similar to each other and closer to Spanish than Brazil's Portuguese

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Post by pjmlp »

bossyTeacher wrote: post #165
jampa wrote: post #30

I knew my accent was strong, but I didn't expect to get 100% Portuguese, which is strange since Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Maybe it considers both accents to be Portuguese? A fun fact: When using Whisper by OpenAI, there seems to be a ~1% chance that all my text, which was spoken entirely in English, is automatically transcribed and translated…

> Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish. Surely you mean the opposite? Portugal is literally next to Spain and both languages have coexisted since they were both born following Rome's fall. Both Galician and Portugal's Portugese are likely similar to each other and closer to Spanish than Brazil's Portuguese

As native Portuguese / Spanish, they are right.

You are right regarding Galician, but Galician isn't Spanish, rather original Portuguese, where some words changed throughout the centuries.

The way we both speak is rather different than the native Spanish speakers, that never have been exposed to native Portuguese/Galician speakers.

In fact, even native Catalan speakers have easier time understanding Galician/Portuguese speakers, than Spanish speakers do, probably due to the French roots in Galician/Portuguese carried by the crusades involved in the founding of both regions and naturally influeced the language evolution.

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Post by ookblah »

nu11ptr wrote: post #33

Not very good guesses. It had me read twice and I used a high quality mic. It guessed Spanish as my native language, but picked up a bit of Chinese and a bit of English. I am a native born American whose only language is English and a life long Midwesterner. I have a midwestern accent and occasionally some Canadian influences sneaks in (or so people have told me), but Spanish/Chinese? Completely wrong.

Very interesting, I also got Spanish, Chinese, and english. Lifelong midwesterner here as well. Maybe there's something to the midwest.

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Post by eqvinox »

Does it ask everyone to do two rounds or was that just me? It did say something like "you're special, retrying" but who knows...

(It guessed correctly after the 2nd round)

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