ItsACaragor
ItsACaragor t1_j9elqmr wrote
Reply to comment by ApiContraption in PsBattle: This hominin taking a selfie by GowBeyow
Thought Putin hated social media, apparently I am wrong
ItsACaragor t1_j8682d5 wrote
Reply to comment by Spoonerism86 in [OC] What song did the Sailor Moon dub in each country use for its opening theme? by konaya
I was going to ask, it made no sense to me either.
I would have seen it maybe in a country with a sizable french speaking population but Hungary seemed weird.
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Reply to comment by wegqg in I'm the head of video at France’s leading newspaper Le Monde. Our team recreated Charles De Gaulle's lost 1940 recording for France to resist the Nazis using historical sources and artificial intelligence. AMA about our investigation. by LeMonde_en
As a native french speaker I can say that the speech they recreated is much much faithful to De Gaulle's actual way to speak than the actors who played him.
De Gaulle had a very special way to talk, he talked extremely slowly exagerating the pronunciation of every word and making long pauses. I never heard an actor actually doing him perfectly, in Le Monde's video they are basically spot on, I don't think anyone could tell it's not De Gaulle with any certitude.
ItsACaragor t1_j73m2nb wrote
Reply to comment by Maxco_ in I'm the head of video at France’s leading newspaper Le Monde. Our team recreated Charles De Gaulle's lost 1940 recording for France to resist the Nazis using historical sources and artificial intelligence. AMA about our investigation. by LeMonde_en
It’s explained in the short video.
They had three different written versions of the speech from three different sources but no actual recording to know which is the actual one.
They then found a guy who had access to Swiss military archives and apparently Switzerland kept extensive transcriptions of radio broadcasts in their archives and they had a very thorough transcription of the speech in swiss german. They translated it and compared it to the three other french versions they had to make what was most likely a very close transcription.
ItsACaragor t1_j73lapg wrote
Reply to comment by wegqg in I'm the head of video at France’s leading newspaper Le Monde. Our team recreated Charles De Gaulle's lost 1940 recording for France to resist the Nazis using historical sources and artificial intelligence. AMA about our investigation. by LeMonde_en
They did use a human actor and made him reproduce De Gaulle’s rhythm from actual recordings but without changing his voice. The AI intervened after that to modify the voice of the actor by analyzing the voices of De Gaulle and of the actor to make them match.
ItsACaragor t1_j73kvhs wrote
Reply to comment by nitsedy in I'm the head of video at France’s leading newspaper Le Monde. Our team recreated Charles De Gaulle's lost 1940 recording for France to resist the Nazis using historical sources and artificial intelligence. AMA about our investigation. by LeMonde_en
I assume they will, they are a major newspaper with excellent reputation, they can’t risk tarnishing that by forgetting that.
ItsACaragor t1_j1qwnsa wrote
Reply to comment by BrokenEye3 in TIL that incarcerated prisoners make a contraband drink in prison called "pruno" which entails fermenting fruit, sugar cubes, bread, and water in a ziplock bag a several days. by FlashyBehind
It’s no trouble at all when you have unlimited time to kill and nothing else to do.
ItsACaragor t1_j1liyc2 wrote
Reply to France and Italy share a lot of cultural features, but people often fail to grasp how centralised France is compared to how decentralised Italy is, at least regarding population. Different historical paths, different political and social dynamics today. by iUseArchRS
As a french person it’s awful if we are honest.
Most of the politic and economic activity happens on Paris meaning that’s where the jobs are too, many people have to go live in Paris to study or work making it an overcrowded and super expensive city.
Extreme centralization is honestly a terrible way to run a country.
I mean I see how it’s kind of efficient to have all the decision centers at the same place but it’s no fun for the average Joe who has to deal with it.
ItsACaragor t1_j1d8h6q wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that Henry Gunther was the last soldier to die in World War I. The war ended at 11 AM and Gunther was killed at 10:59 AM while charging a German machine gun by IAmDavidGurney
Even the German soldiers tried their best to not shoot him. This is a pretty dumb action really.
If the Germans had been inclined to fight him he would have been shot dead the second he poped his head out.
ItsACaragor t1_ixu23da wrote
Reply to comment by tokynambu in TIL of the Arisan Maru, a Japanese "hell ship" that was torpedoed while carrying Allied prisoners of war. None of the 1,781 passengers were killed by the explosion, but other Japanese ships refused to rescue them, resulting in only 9 survivors. by Jupitair
You don’t know much about Germany, do you?
ItsACaragor t1_jedvhjm wrote
Reply to Eli5 why does a survey need to have a minimum of 30 respondees to be statistically significant? by shashwathj
30 is not representative at all.
Generally the minimum is 1000 people taken at random to be at least a bit representative