[thomasahle]

> By adding the blank token to the classes predictions, we can get the model to predict something like this (post softmax classification) > y* -> hel~l~~oooo~~~~~~ w~~o~~r~~l~~d

This is a great solution. Though that's a dummy token in the output rather than the input. I guess you could do something inverse to do text to speech, but it might be hard to say where to insert the dummy tokens in that case.