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0 pointsnovalis789y ago0 comments

Indeed. I was surprised by that as well. Sounded like a Dutch speaker with a muffled voice behind a screen.

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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.

dharma19y ago

Confirms my thought that Dutch sounds like unintelligible babbling :)

vintermann9y ago

Especially funny as the main authors are Dutch.

rattray9y ago

Ah. Perhaps it was trained on Dutch speakers, not English.

sjwright9y ago

That would explain it. Would be interesting to hear babbling trained with other languages and accents.

ralfd9y ago

To my German ears it sounded definitely English, not Dutch, like a very hard to understand dialect.

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