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On the one hand, there's clear empirical evidence from parents that this helps improve kids' imagination and storytelling ability, and on the other hand we have
by richardfeynman 4y ago
On the one hand, there's clear empirical evidence from parents that this helps improve kids' imagination and storytelling ability, and on the other hand we have your pure conjecture that "spoken audio which lacks emotional depth" can harm kids. I'm not buying it, but even if it were true it's pretty clear by the rate of improvement in voice cloning that soon there will be more emotional depth in this form of audio.
- generalizations 4y agoFrom your other comment with the parent's feedback - > She couldn’t tell a difference. My husband and I could tell it was different [...] I wonder if the child will eventually be able to tell the difference, when the machine-generated audio is a large fraction of what they hear in their early years. Or if they just learn to consider that 'normal', and maybe model their own speech patterns after it. Also, anecdotes from parents (is that what you're referring to by "clear empirical evidence"?) are not evidence.
- detourdog 4y agoCurrent literacy theory believes there is an education gap formed between pre-school age children that hear a lot of words vs. those that don’t get to hear as many. https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/word-gap-speak-more-words-to-your-preschooler-daily/ https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/word-gap-speak-more...