mattnewport comments on Adaptive bias - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Morendil 25 January 2010 05:45PM

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Comment author: Dustin 27 January 2010 12:37:46AM 1 point [-]

No, I didn't. I am a native English speaker from the Midwest part of America. I listened to it multiple times without hearing any speech in either of the sound effects.

After reading your comment, I listened to the audio again and now both audio samples do sound like a repeat of the speech. At no point did the audio samples sound different from one another, though.

Comment author: mattnewport 27 January 2010 12:45:54AM 1 point [-]

The woman does have an English rather than American accent. I'm from England originally and the effect was quite dramatic the first time I listened to it: meaningless noise, then speech, then completely intelligible speech (the repeat of the original meaningless noise). The second time I listened to it some time later (after reading your comment) I could understand the speech in the first sound but it was clearer in the second. Listening to it again shortly afterwards the first and last sound both sounded like speech and sounded much the same as each other. I wonder whether the accent is a factor?