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> Human voice inflection is hard to mimic because you have to have a contextual understanding of what is being said It's a hard problem even for a human. One o
by Jeff_Brown 4y ago
> Human voice inflection is hard to mimic because you have to have a contextual understanding of what is being said
It's a hard problem even for a human. One of the readers for The Economist always emphasizes the wrong word in phrases describing monetary sums. "China's GDP that year was 600 billion dollars, and now it's 8 trillion." It drives me nuts.
- albert_e 4y agoInteresting example. I am ESL but had English all through school and used it all my professional life. What we were never taught formally though was pronunciation, and various vowel sounds, and emphasis on syllables and words. Out of interest I watched a few youtube videos about spoken (American) English in adulthood and realized the above. I sound very monotonus when I present / speak on a topic in work settings -- and I need to learn these nuances.