Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

@JessMahler @zersiax they’re using AI to generate the voices, using similar training methods to how we’ve trained chatGPT to generate text which lets them create larger corpuses of sounds faster and more cheaply than it does to record a person speaking & break that down into constituent parts. It also theoretically gives improvements in that AI can do more natural pattern matching as to which of the hundred a sounds its generated is appropriate than the extremely complex if then statements a normal TTS would use could (more accurately I think it actually generates the new clips on the fly but for discussions sake we’ll just focus on how this allows a larger set of sounds)

However this is all pretty marginal, it’s most just being touted as revolutionary bc AI makes the hot new thing makes firing all your voice actors okay while previously we judged companies for doing that sort of thing.

@villainousfriend @Betty yeah i think the people saying its fine if english majors don’t get dickens are maybe a little over-indexing on the headlines “cant read” and less on the studie’s “to the standards we expect for english majors” but the people critiquing the methodology of the study are 100% valid that format of reading sounds absolutely excruciating to me

@Lady @aescling @wallhackio https://glitch.cat.family/@Satsuma/114458577837284735

@aescling @wallhackio @Lady its a valid reading of the text

@clarfonthey two sips of soup is presumed to make your anger recede regardless of your answer to the poll

@Anke ah i see! interesting. Retour is…i’ve never heard anyone use it so it’d definitely make me blink to come across, but since both of its constituent parts are valid english words with about the same meaning as their french counterparts its mostly sensical?

@coriander @Lady @wallhackio yes, book 5 (post gap) was order of the pheonix which introduces the secret society by the same name

@wallhackio @Lady @coriander books 1-4 were published on an annual basis and then she realized sue wrote herself into a corner so book 5 took three years, during which fans speculated extensively on what was going to happen next. And then she solved everything in a much more boring way then the fans had and everyone was disappointed

@Lady @coriander @wallhackio i don’t know i would have phrased it quite like that if only but it was definitely a catalyzing moment in fan culture

@Lady also stress and anxiety and dispair

@Lady tea is good for that too

will two sips of tea make your anger recede

@platypus @Pixley jesus was once just some guy from the next town over too tbf