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It's also the case that often there aren't spaces between words. One of the surprising things when you first start doing audio analysis is that the pauses betwe
by Osmium 9y ago
It's also the case that often there aren't spaces between words. One of the surprising things when you first start doing audio analysis is that the pauses between words that you perceive aren't actually there in reality -- which makes them a lot more difficult to 'remove' algorithmically.
- thedirt0115 9y ago+1 -- this is part of why learning foreign languages can be so difficult. There aren't really pauses between words. Your brain has to learn to figure out word boundaries. Check out this waveform for the phrase "on our website": https://swphonetics.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/speecheonourwebsite.jpg https://swphonetics.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/speecheonour...
- philsnow 9y agoI remember clearly the ~week I was finally able to "lex" syllables out of spoken Chinese. I went from feeling like I was trying to catch butterflies out of the air with my bare hands, to feeling like the whargarbl dog.