Posted by nmcfarl 4/16/2025
That is a really interesting use for LLMs I would never have even considered. The example video with JFK's speech is pretty compelling.
It would be really neat to have automatic transcription that could annotate the result accordingly.
Most of the arguments seem to be biased by "what an adult think is playful and fun", while my kid has a very different view of things.
Things like lower vs upper case are a struggle for him, it basically forces him to remember twice as many letters. Also the handwriting style just makes letters harder to recognize, especially for n and r, u and v, etc.
Devs: "It's because of your--"
Boss: "Other sites do it. Get on it."
Any claims of pedagogical helpfulness should be made very cautiously though, before there are multiple independent studies of that.
they enable a font to be parameterized in two dimensions: time and prosody, i.e. speech pattern.
so subtitles and learning materials can be animated to reflect the speech pattern (stressing words, rasing and falling pitch, volume overall, ...) and they can --- independently --- be animated to teach writing, by reading the example.
this is a curious novelty that allows experimenting with the representation of speech and I'm looking forward what will come out of it.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/mczee
This was my go-to many years ago!