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Please take it offline. Thank you. > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 07:15:03PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > > I have to ask also, is the audio quality that comes out the speakers (in > > > general) good enough to learn the proper sounds? Every device I have > > > seems to have wildly varying qualities and characteristics. > > > For example, (OK, not OpenBSD but somewhat relevant) if I wanted to > > > listen to the speech coming out of Google Translate, would a native > > > speaker of say Spanish, German or Russian consider the sounds "proper"? > > > > What a bizarre question. Listen to English dialog from your speaker > > setup. Does it sound like "proper" English? Anything that plays > > music in reasonable quality--so *anything*, really--will more than > > do for human speech. > > Actually, despite seeming like a bizarre question, which seems to be > true, it is not. > One of the more difficult parts of learning to speak and hear a new > language consists of adding the new neural pathways to actually be able > to stop translating the new languages sounds into the closest English > sounds. As we originally learn a language, our brains develop the > ability to "only" be able to hear the native sounds of that language > only. Our brains, etc. conveniently move what we hear or speak to the > closest English sounds. This prevents us from hearing the new speech > sounds at first until we train our brain to hear and make the brand new > sounds. So asking only a native speaker if the sounds are proper or not > is the only way to really be sure. Although I can vouch for quality in > English, I simply do not, yet, have the ability to judge new sounds. > Only a native speaker of that language can do this task. > > IMHO, I do think this is a reasonable question to ask. There are some > languages with some very unusual sounds. > > As far as music, I can definitely hear that European played classical > music tends to sound better than American played (Same piece). > I have no idea what is different, but I can hear it. > > Chris Bennett > >
