any volume control? voice is a bit loud and i couldn't find anything to turn it down.
A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese
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#52The voice does not sound like a native speaker. I don't mean it sounds like a non-human character, I mean something is subtly off. Timing or something. Is that intentional? Maybe pick a different TTS solution?
i was expecting this lady https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUTD9r3G8W0 :D
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you right click on the page, you can 'open image in new tab' and get an image of the current screen. I assume that means it is rendering an entirely new image each frame... which is a tad wild.
> I assume that means it is rendering an entirely new image each frame... which is a tad wild. What's wild about that? That's exactly what it's doing and what most uses of canvas/WebGL do.
It's wild if it's running at 400 fps because nobody has a screen that refreshes at 400Hz. Every frame rendered past the screen refresh rate is wasted compute. Easily solved by limiting the frame rate.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
that's just how their women sound to us. cutesy anime girls are voiced by aunties over 30.
As an addendum: Japanese isn't as all-in on pitch having semantics as Chinese, but pitch is very important. Words have "pitch accent" rather than "stress" the way English has, and overall pitch is strongly politeness-coded. Speaking higher is politer, and noticeably dropping your pitch is threatening. You probably would pitch-up when speaking to your boss, and people working in shops or restaurants nearly sing welcom…
How would you pitch-up?
Does the entire Japanese population learn these things while growing up?
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
How infantile then
Comparing our culture to others, women in the U.S. are raised to do much the same. Ask anyone woman constantly misgendered for not having a high-pitched woman’s speaking tone (e.g. pacific islanders) and they’ll confirm. Best not throw stones from glass houses.
I don't know, I don't live or am from US.
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#58Meanwhile I am sitting in an InterCity"Express" train in Germany, which already started 14 minutes late, and somehow managed to drive so slowly, that at every stop another ~2 minutes were lost. Now just standing around at a stop, because of some medical emergency at the next station, and announced a delay of fucking 90 minutes. How long can it take to remove whoever causes the medical emergency from the tracks or wherever they are and continue driving? It is all so nuts here, all so idiotic. The last 10 times or so, that I have been traveling, every fucking time they have stupid issues.
And they don't even manage to have functioning displays inside the trains. Every now and then the displays are turned off. Why am I not allowed to see the up-to-date status?
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I assume that means it is rendering an entirely new image each frame... which is a tad wild. What's wild about that? That's exactly what it's doing and what most uses of canvas/WebGL do.
It's wild if it's running at 400 fps because nobody has a screen that refreshes at 400Hz. Every frame rendered past the screen refresh rate is wasted compute. Easily solved by limiting the frame rate.
It's not running at 400 fps, the UI has the current global listener count next to a button that says "fps". The fps is only shown once you click that button. Weird design, I know.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
IIRC it's a popular TTS character called ずんだもん.
So.. I know many people can read hiragana, but it is a very annoying habit of people who know a bit of Japanese to post un-transliterated Japanese text on an English language forum. For someone who doesn’t know Japanese your post reads ‘IIRC it’s a popular TTS character called ??NOT?FOR??YOU??’ - it communicates no information. Writing ‘a popular TTS character called ずんだもん (zundamon)’ takes you very little time and g…
Try to be more generous with your change requests - not everyone has enough time to fix every bug in their comment.
The strongest plausible interpretation is that when keywords are in another language, it is best to give the original language keyword rather than the anglecised/romanised version (which is so often incorrect e.g. Huawei's Tau[1]). It is also plausible that English is their second language.