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This is a great observation. After reading Spritz' blog post, I've been thinking about using word shape uniqueness as the main signal for how long to pause--i.e
by pkghost 13y ago
This is a great observation. After reading Spritz' blog post, I've been thinking about using word shape uniqueness as the main signal for how long to pause--i.e., "soliloquy" would be quite unique thanks to its ascenders and descenders, whereas "excessive" is less unique, owing to its relatively featureless outline. Combining shape with word frequency (across language) seems even more promising.
- nopasswordreset 13y agoI'm not sure ascenders and descenders are the only things factoring in here. I guess doing a visual blur on an image of a word could help to spot characteristics of words. Admittedly, the ascenders and descenders would have a probably primary role in aiding classifying. So maybe it's an 80%/20% thing. At a guess words with unique clusters of vowels would also stand out say 'Hawaiian'. Or other words like 'cameraman', 'minimum', 'consciousness', 'neuroscience', that all probably have a certain shape or density, even if they are flat. This regex dictionary may be useful: http://www.visca.com/regexdict/ http://www.visca.com/regexdict/ /^[aeiuocmnrsvwxz]*$/