[HN Gopher] How vlogging is empowering a new generation of stutt...
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How vlogging is empowering a new generation of stutterers
Author : notoriousarun
Score : 31 points
Date : 2021-07-11 11:56 UTC (1 days ago)
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| papandada wrote:
| So today in my 40s I learned that these pauses I sometimes make
| mid-speech that cause listeners to "interrupt" (they think I
| finished my sentence and are asking for what they missed) is
| potentially a sign of a speech disfluency all my life...down a
| rabbit hole I go.
| 1123581321 wrote:
| Same here. Over the last several years I've become increasingly
| frustrated with all the people who interrupt me mid-sentence,
| thinking them rude, only to realize I was creating natural
| openings for them. I've been working on making my sentences
| shorter and qualifying them later as needed.
| Animats wrote:
| There's no video filter to remove stuttering yet? Get busy, ML
| people. There's a market waiting.
| grumpy-de-sre wrote:
| I have to agree with barcoder here. To top it off the use cases
| for a filter aren't that great due to the temporal nature of
| stuttering.
|
| For a look into the intersection of technology and disabilities
| I found this interview with a live streamer with tourettes
| pretty incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tlWjsaF1Og
| barcoder wrote:
| While I understand the sentiment this type of filter would make
| people's lives with a disability worse in the real. Better to
| accept ones self then cover defining features with a filter
| justinjlynn wrote:
| You know what: no. The only person who gets to decide what's
| best for helping a person cope with their differing needs is
| that person with differing needs.
| marliechiller wrote:
| objectively this is false.
| adenozine wrote:
| Then we can accept there's not an ML solution for it, since
| sufferers haven't built it yet.
| nxpnsv wrote:
| But what if it solves the problem of barcoder not
| understanding stuttering? I mostly agree with you, but in
| principle subtitles and voice over does the same thing -
| not everything is so simple.
| justinjlynn wrote:
| People being left to make their own decisions about using
| or foregoing prosthetic technologies sounds rather simple
| to me.
| nxpnsv wrote:
| As a filter that can be enabled in a video player UI, it
| would act very much like subtitles or voice over - here
| it is an aid to the consumer and everybody makes their
| own decision. As a mandated thing for all stuttering
| content it's limiting freedom of expression and is bad.
| My point is that it is not black or white, and it depends
| how something is deployed.
| TeMPOraL wrote:
| It's a can of worms. The trouble starts when the problem
| is solvable and/or doesn't pass to the next generation,
| and yet some parents insist their children not to be
| treated, or even to be inflicted with the problem, in
| order to keep them within the community of other people
| dealing with that problem.
| justinjlynn wrote:
| I am thinking of the children; especially so - of their
| right to choose.
| sweetheart wrote:
| Many deaf folks reject the use of hearing aids because they
| view their deafness as a positive, or their culture as
| important (their signing and shared experiences).
|
| While it should always be up to the individual to decide what
| they want to do to their body, it's never as straightforward as
| "we can do this, so we should". My first thought (as someone
| who does not stutter, so my opinion is worth very little here)
| is that we send a poor message to those with stutters if we use
| technology to pretend stuttering doesn't exist.
|
| Again, just food for thought. I'd be more curious to hear what
| someone with a stutter thinks.
| prpl wrote:
| A better first step would be if Siri/Alexa/Google could wait if
| you thought you were stuttering. They don't
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