But I’m not an expert!
STT throws away a lot of information that is clearly being preserved in a lot of these demos so that's definitely not happening here in that sense. That said, the tokens would be merged to a shared embedding space. Hard to say how they are approaching it exactly.
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The phrase "*laughter* Yeah, I'm sure that's right" appears to be expressing sarcasm or skepticism about whatever was previously said or suggested. Here's a breakdown of its likely meaning:
"*laughter*" - This typically indicates the speaker is laughing, which can signal amusement, but in this context suggests they find whatever was said humorous in an ironic or disbelieving way.
"Yeah," - This interjection sets up the sarcastic tone. It can mean "yes" literally, but here seems to be used facetiously.
"I'm sure that's right." - This statement directly contradicts and casts doubt on whatever was previously stated. The sarcastic laughter coupled with "I'm sure that's right" implies the speaker believes the opposite of what was said is actually true.
So in summary, by laughing and then sarcastically saying "Yeah, I'm sure that's right," the speaker is expressing skepticism, disbelief or finding humor in whatever claim or suggestion was previously made. It's a sarcastic way of implying "I highly doubt that's accurate or true."
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You can't exactly metadata your way out of this (skip to 11:50)
https://www.youtube.com/live/DQacCB9tDaw?si=yN7al6N3C7vCemhL
But if the system can create a flamboyantly homosexual Captain Picard with a lisp and slight stutter engaging in overt innuendo when stating, "Number one, Engage!" then I look forward to eating crow! But as the instructions were all conspicuously just "swap to pretrained voice [x,y,z]", I suspect crow will not be on the menu any time soon.
