Oh maybe I did just misread the intent of the sentence? I read it as "something like audio" but yeah that is confusing since that would be all music.
replyThat's a suffix word though, not a pause.
replyHyphens should be used to link compound/suffix words, not em dashes.
Agreed that hyphens should be used to indicate compound words, but you're saying that "audio-like" is an intended compound word? Then it's an adjective, modifying "music"? What would that mean?
replyThat was my initial reading and I may have just misread it as them intending it to be compound rather than an aside modifier.
replyWell okay, not a "compound" per se, but it's a prefix/suffix, which similarly should use hyphens.
replyI think the disagreement here is not whether that’s how you should use hyphens but whether that’s what was intended at all. The term audio-like music makes no sense.
replyI think you're fundamentally missing the point being made here.
replyYes, "-like" is commonly used as a suffix, in which case a hyphen is correct. But describing music as "audio-like" is clearly nonsense (music isn't "like" audio, it is audio), so that's not the sense in which it's being used here.
For clarity, the full sentence is:
> Genie 4 is natively multimodal, enabling audio-like music, ambient noises, and interactive dialogue to be simultaneously generated with the world.
Why does everyone hate colons?
replyaudio: music, ...
No one ever got em-dash cancer…
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