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And who says it can't understand the material? There have been recurrent networks trained that can translate between languages, or predict the next word in a se
by Houshalter 10y ago
And who says it can't understand the material? There have been recurrent networks trained that can translate between languages, or predict the next word in a sentence, at remarkable accuracy. Combined with wavenet this could be quite effective.
- thomasahle 10y agoThere could be cases where the intonation is dependent on things entirely outside of the book. If say a politician does something in the writing that is far from what we would expect them to do in today's world.
- spiritus_ 10y agoLike traditional audio books can capture perfectly what you're referring to...
- ycombinatorMan 10y agoThey can, though?
- visarga 10y agoHow about we allow annotation of text with prosody cues? Mark the words you want stressed. We already use question and exclamation marks.
- atty79 10y agoI'd love that. Writing is a poor representation of language. It'd be nice to bring it up a notch. Here's a suggestion in a paper I wrote on better second language acquisition. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261022308_BETTER_SECOND_LANGUAGE_ACQUISITION_BY_CONTINUOUS_IDENTIFICATION_OF_PROSODIC_FEATURES_IN_TEXT https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261022308_BETTER_SE...