{"id":8874,"date":"2019-06-16T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=8874"},"modified":"2019-06-16T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T22:03:05","slug":"predicting-someones-gestures-from-just-their-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/16\/predicting-someones-gestures-from-just-their-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting someone&#8217;s gestures from just their words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa\u2014what <a href=\"http:\/\/people.eecs.berkeley.edu\/~shiry\/projects\/speech2gesture\/\">an eerie, funky thing<\/a> to undertake: using a computer to anticipate a specific person\u2019s idiosyncratic (yet predictable!) hand gestures based just on a recording of their speech:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Learning Individual Styles of Conversational Gesture\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xzTE5sobpFY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now they just need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S65jqrHQi_c\">automatically add accordions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the training data:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our speakers come from a diverse set of backgrounds: television show hosts, university lecturers and televangelists. They span at least three religions and discuss a large range of topics from commentary on current affairs through the philosophy of death, chemistry and the history of rock music, to readings in the Bible and the Qur&#8217;an.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As always, \u201cThis is the strangest life I\u2019ve ever known\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xzTE5sobpFY\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoa\u2014what an eerie, funky thing to undertake: using a computer to anticipate a specific person\u2019s idiosyncratic (yet predictable!) hand gestures based just on a recording of their speech: Now they just need to automatically add accordions. As for the training data: Our speakers come from a diverse set of backgrounds: television show hosts, university lecturers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8877,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions\/8877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}