whether you change might depend on how young you are. younger minds tend to be more responsive to how they perceive the environment around them- I'm Canadian (16yo) and the US is overall similar to Canada...the main thing is that you're living in different housing (your local area changes). I moved back for a year and had a lot of daily habits change.
half-way through reading this comment I was so scared for you but the turnaround is great to hear!! I'm hoping to move to SF soon, do you have an opinion on the culture of its neighbourhoods?
To each their own, just stay away from Tenderloin and Market and 6th street.
I'm sure if you set out some time to explore, you will find whatever fits you best. When I was moving, I sourced a bunch of opinions from my coworkers, non of them were of much help to me. I've charted my own way in the end, made my own mistakes
The major axis is urban+gritty to more suburby and spread out. It's a very personal preference where you want to be, but most people dislike the most gritty areas (tenderloin, most of soma). It's worth aiming for a neighborhood at the median as your first.
ohh thanks! silly question then. feels a bit creepy to browse individual acc's w/o permission but HN offering publicising ur favourites as social makes sense!
agree, apple’s brand is known as more exclusive and private than google’s & anyhow google had a lot of backlash “recently” regarding ai (ie in the New Yorker) so apple should frame its comparative advantage of privacy as a gap from competitors’ offerings
> apple’s brand is known as more exclusive and private
> apple should frame its comparative advantage
All of this is just marketing, though. Apple customers are still being routed through Google's services, which should raise an eyebrow for anyone no matter what the advertisements say.
Except, Apple customers don't care about this marketing spiel, because they're happy to default to Google Search for services like Spotlight. There's no boycott of Apple products or general outrage that stemmed from that deal, despite it funneling traffic into Google's AdSense monopoly and propping up their general surveillance empire.
If you're in accent-modification//speech-language pathology, having clients use a Golden Speaker tech could get them to a native-like speech in a target language faster than having them simply mimic speech from just any native speaker.
A Golden Speaker= corrected accent, similar voice identity= easier to mimic
Step 1. Record themselves reading a given sentence (phonetic pangram) aloud.
Step 2. Have the Golden Speaker system generate a Golden Speaker for them
Step 3. Use their Golden Speaker to read aloud any text or convert their speech in real time
"Baby Frankie" has...terminated as of yesterday. The new iteration is called "Frank". (Frank/ie is growing up, you see)
a Golden Speaker technology that would help users adopt a native-like accent faster! contrary to the current norm in the speech-processing field (esp regarding voice conversion), where voice identities are lost, voice identities would be kept.
We generate a "Golden Speaker" for you -> You record yourself saying a sentence (a phonetic pangram), we keep your accent which represents your voice identity but we correct your pronunciation and then you have a Golden Speaker system. This may be in the form of a TTS or a real-time accent conversion technology.
the above has a provisional patent attached to it, but obviously that doesn't mean anything. & because I'm 16 and know very little so far, I'd very much appreciate any input on the above idea (it's currently a waitlist @ https://loxai.tech). esp if anyone's in linguistics or AI, lmk your opinion!
love the locally run part! I also happened to fall down bit of a rabbit hole and ended up looking at Wasp; with LLMs becoming increasingly generalist having a programming language that has a broader coverage over a user's personal tasks is perfect!! good luck with both Open Vibe and Wasp
Hope you guys are doing great!! I’m 16, and here to share an emerging tech that would help users adopt a native-like accent faster :
In 1990, the first research paper regarding Golden Speakers came out proving their efficacy in helping individuals build native-like accent in a target foreign language. A "Golden Speaker" refers to another person with proper pronunciation but a similar voice identity.
With today's technology, a user's "Golden Speaker" can be generated-> You record yourself saying a sentence (which would be a phonetic pangram), we keep your accent which represents your voice identity but we correct your pronunciation and then you have a Golden Speaker system. This may be in the form of a TTS or a real-time accent conversion technology.
furthermore, if you would like to get early access to a real-time accent conversion technology to be able to go from Point A (foreign accent) to B (native-like accent) faster, you can sign up at loxai.tech.
would very much appreciate input on this idea especially from those in AI and linguistics
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