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A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by rustman123 »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #64
darkwater wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Medical emergency might well be somebody committing suicide (or trying to).

Yep, but then what takes 1h? They must have had that multiple times already. Either get them off the tracks in whatever state they are in, or get them out of the train. I don't find it to be a good reason to punish the collective amount of all train passengers in any train in the vicinity by making everyone an hour late. It seems very unprofessional.

Sounds like you have a solution for the trolley problem but modified so that the many are mildly inconvenienced instead of killed.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by astrange »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #64
darkwater wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Medical emergency might well be somebody committing suicide (or trying to).

Yep, but then what takes 1h? They must have had that multiple times already. Either get them off the tracks in whatever state they are in, or get them out of the train. I don't find it to be a good reason to punish the collective amount of all train passengers in any train in the vicinity by making everyone an hour late. It seems very unprofessional.

The train has probably already hit them and they need to be cleaned off it because you don't want to give your train employees PTSD or you run out of employees.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by zelphirkalt »

smilespray wrote: post #68
zelphirkalt wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, but then what takes 1h? They must have had that multiple times already. Either get them off the tracks in whatever state they are in, or get them out of the train. I don't find it to be a good reason to punish the collective amount of all train passengers in any train in the vicinity by making everyone an hour late. It seems very unprofessional.

One day you might be that person who requires medical assistance. Think about that for a bit, considering what you just said.

Medical assistance can be received outside of the train, or once medical professionals are on board, while the train moves to the next station at the very least, if it isn't there already.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by choutianxius »

socalgal2 wrote: post #50

The 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?

> The voice does not sound like a native speaker.

It would be more attractive to me if it's vocaloid

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by chrisguilbeau »

I spent three months with my family in Japan (Feb-Apr). We were in Osaka and used trains exclusively, just working remotely, homeschooling, living life with a few day/weekend trips. This captures for me the simple, clean, engineered beauty of being in a Japanese city. I just sat an watched for a while feeling like I was back there. Having the easy to learn characters above the traditional ones is also super nice. Amazing.

Being able to hover over the characters and see the phonetics would be a nice bonus for us beginners.

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by dripdry45 »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #74
smilespray wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One day you might be that person who requires medical assistance. Think about that for a bit, considering what you just said.

Medical assistance can be received outside of the train, or once medical professionals are on board, while the train moves to the next station at the very least, if it isn't there already.

First, i agree with you. Inconveniencing everyone is unacceptable when something ought to be taken care of as quickly as possible. That said…

if someone jumped in front of the train they probably need to get police, medical, and train teams out there. The police need to do a quick investigation and gather any evidence around tracks (could be foul play), the medical team needs to probably clean things up. You also probably need to have Inspectors for the train to check and make sure that the train and tracks are safe to continue.

Overall, having to get all three parties to the site and then assess and perform their duties, an hour seems pretty reasonable

Re: A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese

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Post by kanbankaren »

smilespray wrote: post #69
kanbankaren wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would you pitch-up? Does the entire Japanese population learn these things while growing up?

I think it's called learning to speak.

Don't be smartass. My question was how to change pitch? Most people can't change their pitch unless they have been trained. I can't speak with the pitch of child or woman. Neither are most people.
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