Morendil comments on Adaptive bias - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Morendil 27 January 2010 11:20:09AM 0 points [-]

That's very interesting. Can you try some of the other samples from Matt Davis' page and report on your experiences?

When I listened to some of those the first time I was, as luck would have it, in a slightly noisy environment, so that I couldn't quite catch some bits of the English text the first time around; the corresponding parts of the "sine wave speech" remained obscure for me until I had listened again to the clear text.

So for me the effect seems to be stronger rather than weaker as a result of the speaker's accent plus English being a second language. I'm really puzzled as to why the effect might be weaker for you. Any ideas? Are you cognitively atypical in any way?

Comment author: ciphergoth 27 January 2010 12:36:14PM 0 points [-]

One reason I wished it had been two samples rather than one is that I thought I heard speech in the noise the first time, and wanted to listen again to see if I could figure it out without being primed.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 27 January 2010 02:44:26PM *  0 points [-]

This is the question I tried to answer elsewhere - After training on 4 or 5 samples I was able to hear the words in the remainder of the coded sentences the first time I heard them, without being primed by the decoded version of those sentences.

Comment author: ciphergoth 27 January 2010 02:50:52PM 0 points [-]

reads in more detail indeed - thanks!