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Cleaning up C-LARA
As many people have said, C-LARA’s appearance so far leaves a great deal to be desired. It lacks the styling typical of modern web apps. I have been holding off on addressing these issues, since I thought it was more important to get the functionality in place first. But now that the functionality seems to… Continue reading
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Creating texts out of images with simple C-LARA
I have extended simple C-LARA so that we have more ways to create a text. The initial screen now looks like this: The most exciting possibility is the second one, which uses GPT-4V to do the work; as it says, you just upload an image and tell the AI how to use it. Here are… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Jan 18-24 2024
This week, I have been mostly concentrating on “Simple C-LARA”. I posted an initial report here. Since then, Claudia and Lucretia have already used it in an initial session at the Romanian school in Holland! Claudia provided a lot of useful feedback and things are moving along well. I have just checked in an enhancement… Continue reading
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Planning for C-LARA
Rina and I were chatting on Zoom about what we should be doing next in C-LARA. We have so many interesting things going on, but development is currently rather haphazard and impulse-driven – a more systematic planning process would help. Here are some thoughts arising from our talk, arranged under three headings: 1) short-term priorities,… Continue reading
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Weekly summary, Jan 11-17 2024
This week, I have been concentrating on two items: better control of TTS, and an initial version of “Simple C-LARA”. Here are the details: TTS In response to Cathy’s post, pointing out that our default Google TTS isn’t very good, I did some work to integrate the OpenAI TTS engine, allowing the user to select… Continue reading
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Improving C-LARA’s TTS
In her post two days ago, Cathy rightly said that the free Google TTS voice, which we’ve previously been using as our default, is not very good. I am in the middle of experimenting with connecting up various pieces of OpenAI software to C-LARA, so I thought I would make their TTS engine available too.… Continue reading
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Beta-testing content creation on C-LARA
As a way to try out C-LARA’s content creation methods, I used English as the text language and annotations in French. For a prompt I asked for a poem to be generated based on the description I gave it of our new kitten Finley. First point: the prompt should be saved and isn’t. Second point:… Continue reading
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C-LARA social network: current state of play, Jan 8 2024
The last couple of days, ChatGPT-4 and I have been concentrating on adding basic social network functionality to C-LARA. I should say that nearly all of the work has been done by Chat. The features we’re adding are simple and standard, they are implemented using mainstream Django design patterns, and on this kind of territory… Continue reading
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Phonetic texts: current state of play, Jan 2 2024
We have several parallel discussions in progress about the phonetic texts. I thought it would be helpful to summarise where we are now, and what we’re planning to do next. By “phonetic text”, we mean a C-LARA text where the words have been divided into smaller units, each one associated with a phonetic value, and… Continue reading
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Weekly summary: Nov 17 – Nov 22, 2023
Here is this week’s roundup: UniSA server The UniSA server appears to be fully operational. We have now been running it for a couple of weeks, no one has reported any issues. GPT-4 Turbo I reran the Swedish glossing operation for the six English examples in our upcoming ALTA paper. Here are the error rates:… Continue reading
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