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the harvard sentences are pretty fun

they're a collection of sentences designed to have a representative set of english sounds, while also being sensical. they've been used in linguistics and in testing phones and voice over ip. here's some examples:

  1. The birch canoe slid on the smooth planks.
  2. Glue the sheet to the dark blue background.
  3. It's easy to tell the depth of a well.
  4. These days a chicken leg is a rare dish.
bethposting
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there's 720 of em. we can have a bunch of 1v1 matches where the loser gets knocked out, and do that for all remaining sentences for 9 rounds

1st round: 720 cut down to 360 2nd round: 260 cut down to 130 3rd round: 130 cut down to 65 4th round: 65 cut down to 32 and uh idk the one leftover gets voted on if they stay maybe 5th round: 32 cut down to 16 6th round: 16 cut down to 8 7th round: 8 cut down to 4 8th round: 4 cut down to 2 9th round: 2 cut down to 1

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arborelia
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my first job in natural language processing was that I was annotating the prosody of spoken English. The process occasionally included reoccurring training sentences, to make sure we remembered how to use some of the rarer labels.

The training sentence that will stick in my head forever is "Oh don't nuzzle me, you marmalade-nose!", spoken very emphatically but with no expectation of a response, probably to a dog

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runi
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Oh hey thats what i used for voice training ! I wrote a little script for enso that spat them out at random because my housemates started getting a little confused why i was saying the vowels and days of the week and the quick brown fox phrase multiple times an hour sometimes. (and yet they didnt realise that my voice was slowly changing across the entire year, yay for boiling the frog !)

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