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What's really intriguing is the part in their article where they explain the "babbling" of wavenet, when they train the network without the text input. That so
by novalis78 10y ago
What's really intriguing is the part in their article where they explain the "babbling" of wavenet, when they train the network without the text input.
That sounds just like a small kid imitating a foreign (or their own) language. My kids grow up bilingual and I hear them attempt something similar when they are really small. I guess it's like listening in to their neural network modelling the sound of the new language.
- sjwright 10y agoTo my Australian English ears, the babbling sounded vaguely Scandinavian.
- novalis78 10y agoIndeed. I was surprised by that as well. Sounded like a Dutch speaker with a muffled voice behind a screen.
- space_fountain 10y agoMight just be that English is fairly close to German and the like but as English speakers it doesn't sound like English to us because we know English so it gets mapped as a similar but different language.
- vintermann 10y agoEspecially funny as the main authors are Dutch.
- dharma1 10y agoConfirms my thought that Dutch sounds like unintelligible babbling :)
- ralfd 10y agoTo my German ears it sounded definitely English, not Dutch, like a very hard to understand dialect.