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sjwright
3571 days ago
To my Australian English ears, the babbling sounded vaguely Scandinavian.
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novalis78
3571 days ago
Indeed. I was surprised by that as well. Sounded like a Dutch speaker with a muffled voice behind a screen.
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space_fountain
3571 days ago
Might just be that English is fairly close to German and the like but as English speakers it doesn't sound like English to us because we know English so it gets mapped as a similar but different language.
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dharma1
3571 days ago
Confirms my thought that Dutch sounds like unintelligible babbling :)
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vintermann
3571 days ago
Especially funny as the main authors are Dutch.
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rattray
3570 days ago
Ah. Perhaps it was trained on Dutch speakers, not English.
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sjwright
3569 days ago
That would explain it. Would be interesting to hear babbling trained with other languages and accents.
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ralfd
3569 days ago
To my German ears it sounded definitely English, not Dutch, like a very hard to understand dialect.
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