Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org

The contrast in quality between this and Apple’s new book narration voices is astounding. I mean, it’s great for fraud and deepfakes that they can train new voices on such tiny samples, but the results seem uncanny in a bad way.

What on earth makes them think minimal training is the right goal, rather than overall quality?

@andrew

Living with Cantonese speakers frequently makes me wonder how much of the differences between us is culture, and how much is purely language. The language differences alone are astounding!

Okay, let's do this. I'd love for someone from Apple Music to try to explain how this playlist makes sense. How does a list start off so well with John Legend, SZA, and Zacari, then give me at least the third version of "Unholy" I've had in the last some-number of weeks, drift through some The Smashing Pumpkins and Biig Piig, and then suddenly drop Bailey Zimmerman singing "Get to Getting' Gone" in there? Then back to goodness with Arctic Monkeys, ThxSoMuch, and GloRilla, but then: back-to-back songs featuring Nick Minaj and Old Dominion? How do Old Dominion or Brett Eldredge end up on this list at all? And then the list ends just fine, with Joji and Billy Raffoul and Meadowlark!

Where on earth did Bailey Zimmerman, Old Dominion, and Brett Eldredge come from? The Venn diagram of people who listen to those songs and people who listen to nearly everything else on the list cannot overlap by much!

I'm sure there are people who love those three artists, and perhaps they're all lovely people. But I'm guessing anybody with those three songs on their playlist and *not* complaining would be upset to get my playlist for completely different reasons.

It's like Sesame Street: three of these things don't belong here.

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