I think the JFK video is actually not a great example. When the video turns the sound off, the audio clip is so well known that I think your brain fills in the inflection and JFKs way of speaking. I think a better example would be to take a relatively unknown speech and do the same thing to see if the subtitles can communicate the prosody of speech or not.

This site is blocked by Telstra in Australia for supposedly having malicious content!

Its very slow to load for me. Baffling that Microsoft may very well be hugged to death by HN

My DNS blocks it as a tracking domain.

that website is also terrible - no scrolling issues because you cannot scroll at all - and no idea what to click because not a single labeled button/link on the entire page, only some vague unlabeled icons. even on hover you get nothing

yes! and the animation and flexibility is the point that's missed by most fellow commenters.

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.

Came here to say this. I don't get why this is necessary at all - it's literaly just bog-standard scrolling content?

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