Links tagged with “speech”
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WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio | DeepMind
The babbling nonsensical speech in the “Knowi What to Say” section is really eerie. Like the sound of a computer becoming sentient moments before it decides all humans should die. (via @tomtaylor)
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Sounds Familiar?
More listenable accents and dialects, British, old and new, from the British Library.
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IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive
Another archive of people from around the world speaking texts with their different accents.
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Speech Accent Archive
Hear people from different parts of the world recite the same paragraph. Fascinating.
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David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University
Basically, “learn to think for yourself.” (And the page is crying out for more leading.)