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asterisk note: The study only looked at 14 languages. The French result is interesting. It was fine - not great, not terrible - on the readability score, and b
by mumblemumble 6y ago
asterisk note: The study only looked at 14 languages.
The French result is interesting. It was fine - not great, not terrible - on the readability score, and by far the worst on writability. (The 2nd worst, English, got 3x the writability score.) That, combined with the fact that this metric was based on how much trouble a neural net had goes a long way toward explaining why my phone can do text-to-speech in French just fine, but can't take dictation to save its life.
- madhadron 6y agoFrench is so ambiguous that they have dictation bees where people try to figure out what words someone just said and accurately record them.
- nrclark 6y agoAre those different than American spelling bees?
- mumblemumble 6y agoIn a dictée, you listen to a longer passage, and the challenge is to transcribe what the person wrote. They're also used for grammar practice. In that case, the challenge is that there might be many written forms of the sentence that would be pronounced the same as what was said, but only one is grammatically correct.