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The video claims it's to help people who have lost the ability to speak. Can someone explain how this is supposed to work? Because it looks more like, and is s
by LV-426 9y ago
The video claims it's to help people who have lost the ability to speak. Can someone explain how this is supposed to work?
Because it looks more like, and is seemingly marketed as - if a video of Barack Obama saying things he hasn't said is typical - a way to make prank videos.
Edit: And why is it even called ObamaNet? Is it endorsed by the former president?
(I'm not making a political point here, I'd ask the same if it was TrumpNet or GagaNet. Is Obama notably connected with this kind of tech or research?)
- Aditya_Garg 9y agoThere's a popular youtube channel called barackdubs where the creator stitches clips from obama's speeches into pop songs.
- exikyut 9y agohttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvHn0MTf40rdEQu6Y2yNL5g https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvHn0MTf40rdEQu6Y2yNL5g Very interesting, thanks.
- berbec 9y agoIf you remember the film critic Roger Ebert, he had cancer in his jaw in 2002. They had to remove his jaw. He was unable to speak intelligibly after that until his death in 2013. He wrote articles right until the end. If he had access to this, he could have released video reviews, which could have drawn a much larger audience.
- oasisbob 9y agoI suspect that Obama is quickly becoming the Lenna [1] of synthesized speech. I seem to remember him being used in examples years ago, in addition to the Radiolab episode which uses him as a test case as well. Not a fan of the ObamaNet naming either - really seems to miss the mark. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna