ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: AI Can Literally Lend You a Hand

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AI can literally lend you a hand.
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But hands are complicated.
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If your hand were a video game character, you'd need 27 buttons to control it.
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Millions of possible button combinations need to be translated to a robotic hand in real time with as little delay as possible.
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So for the past 60 years, researchers have basically been working through one combination at a time.
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AI comes in handy by speeding up the process.
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Learning the moveset from a healthy hand and adapting it to a robotic hand is much faster now.
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So how does it work?
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What a data glove and a microchip riddled with a bunch of electrical sensors in your residual limb.
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Many of the movements of your hand are made in tandem with muscles in the rest of your arm.
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When you try to move your missing hand, the sensors on the chip read these movements and send them to a machine learning algorithm.
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After an initial training phase, it can translate these signals into moving a robotic hand that's connected via Bluetooth.
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And just like that,

Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “AI Can Literally Lend You a Hand”. This video has 13 sentences and 179 words to shadow. The speech runs for 0:53. The speaker talks fast, about 202 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 75% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

WordPronunciationMeaning
robotic adjective/ɹoʊˈbɑtɪk/Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.
sensor noun/ˈsɛn.sɚ/A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.
translate verb/tɹænzˈleɪt/To change spoken words or written text (of a book, document, movie, etc.) from one language to another.
microchip noun/ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌt͡ʃɪp/An integrated circuit.
moveset noun/ˈmuvˌsɛt/The set of moves that a character can perform.
riddle noun/ˈɹɪdəl/A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
residual adjective/ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.u.əl/Of, relating to, or remaining as a residue; left over.
tandem noun/ˈtændəm/A carriage pulled by two or more draught animals (generally draught horses) harnessed one behind the other, both providing pulling power but only the animal in…
limb noun/lɪm/A major appendage of human or animal, used for locomotion (such as an arm, leg or wing).
glove noun/ɡlʌv/An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.
combinations noun/kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/A one-piece form of underwear, being a combination of a vest or chemise and underpants.
researcher noun/ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/One who researches.
lend verb/ˈlɛnd/To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
adapt verb/əˈdæpt/To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit.
algorithm noun/ˈælɡəɹɪðm̩/A collection of ordered steps that solve a mathematical problem. A precise step-by-step plan for a computational procedure that possibly begins with an input…

Phrasal verbs you will hear

WordPronunciationMeaning
speed up verb/spiːdˈʌp/To accelerate; to increase speed.
work through verbTo get past a difficult or stressful situation by thinking or talking about it.

ไวยากรณ์ในวิดีโอนี้

โครงสร้างที่ผู้พูดใช้บ่อยที่สุด พร้อมคำพูดจริงจากวิดีโอ:

โครงสร้างในวิดีโอ
Passive voice be + กริยาช่อง 3 — เน้นสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้น ไม่ใช่ผู้กระทำare complicated · be translated · are made

Pronunciation to watch

  • Long words — get the stress right: residual /ɹɪˈzɪd͡ʒ.u.əl/, combinations /kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like robotic, sensor, translate.

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