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Does the spanish expressive sample sound muffled for others too? And the french sounds super mechanical. Hopefully, it's more impressive the other way. Also: "
by yread 3y ago
Does the spanish expressive sample sound muffled for others too? And the french sounds super mechanical. Hopefully, it's more impressive the other way.
Also: "This research demo is not open to residents of, or those accessing the demo from, the States of Illinois or Texas"
- dentalperson 3y agoYes, they all have significant 'ghosting' artifacts where the harmonics are a bit fuzzy if you listen closely. AFAIK all of the recent neural speech engines have this, from SoundStream to EnCodec, especially in low latency causal setups. Wavenet was a bit better in that regard but has fallen out of style due to complexity and the lack of a bottleneck. It seems like something diffusion post processing would be able to clean up.
- TacticalCoder 3y agoThe "expressive" example in french exhibits a thick accent which bothers me more than the mechanical aspect of the non-expressive french example. It's not dissimilar to some kind of a "ch'ti" / "chtimi" accent or a belgian-french accent (which is not dissimilar to the french ch'ti accent, heard in some part of the north of France. "Ne partez pooooo" (with a longer "a" which sounds nearly like an 'o': that's not proper french at all) instead of "Ne partez pas". That's said I'll take the non-expressive accent any day over subtitles for when watching video in a language I don't understand: it's clearly good enough.
- grogenaut 3y agoIllinois is possibly because they don't allow storage of biometric data without express permission and I believe explicit usage restrictions. So I bet they're keeping all of your utterances, which would violate that law.