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I just found https://voice.mozilla.org/ https://voice.mozilla.org/ Besides being a great resource for speech analysis, this could be a real game changer for ac
by bayesian_horse 7y ago
I just found https://voice.mozilla.org/ https://voice.mozilla.org/
Besides being a great resource for speech analysis, this could be a real game changer for acquiring listening comprehension in a foreign language.
I feel that even after a few years of learning a new language I still have trouble with listening. Part of that is that it's often all or nothing, even one or two unknown words in a sentence means I can't understand the sentence. But worse is that most language teaching materials use a very small set of native speakers, which deprives the learner's brain of being able to generalize.
- pete762 7y agoSome of the English samples by non-natives were completely incomprehensible. I hope the system learns to be accent free.
- bayesian_horse 7y agoThey have a validation process, and the data is mainly meant to train speech-to-text. For that, it's important to include accents and even non-native speakers, especially in English. I think that those wavenet models for TTS were able to be conditioned by gender and maybe accent, if they had the data.
- Barrin92 7y agogiven that there are more non-native than native english speakers on the planet I think it makes a fair bit of sense to include non-native data in the training set