Artificial intelligence is bad enough much less a seeming inability to prononce locations. This is prevalent on YouTube videos on WW2. Is this just pure laziness or something else?
September 30, 2025, 06:03 PM
joel9507
English is tough enough for 'non-artificial' intelligences.
The MA locals pronounce Worcester as 'wooster'. And they're right.
First off, "intelligence" is a misnomer. It's automation, pure and simple.
Secondly, it's essentially "text to voice" from a written script and things are being pronounced phonetically and literally.
For instance, I started to watch a video on a John Deere tractor. It was a model 4020 which ANYBODY that knows anything about tractors pronounces as a "Forty-Twenty". AI doesn't know that and called it a "Four Zero Two Zero"
AI will improve with experience and annoyances like that will become increasingly rare. For now, that shit bugs the hell out of me and I click out at the first instance.
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
September 30, 2025, 06:51 PM
Ripley
I think they do it to fool us into thinking AI is no big deal.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
October 01, 2025, 11:08 AM
ChuckFinley
Particularly in Mobile, AL.
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October 01, 2025, 02:22 PM
egregore
The captioning often misspells homophones (sound-alike words) as well. An example this morning was Vivian Lee (for the actress Vivien Leigh).
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October 01, 2025, 02:55 PM
ZSMICHAEL
Our local newscasters constantly mispronounce locations and words. This did not happen when I lived in Wisconsin and they had some tough native American names.
October 01, 2025, 03:06 PM
P250UA5
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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL: Our local newscasters constantly mispronounce locations and words. This did not happen when I lived in Wisconsin and they had some tough native American names.
This guy has it down:
The Enemy's gate is down.
October 01, 2025, 09:28 PM
egregore
Artificial intelligence is not enough. It needs real common sense.
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October 02, 2025, 10:09 AM
2BobTanner
Maybe Tilly Norwood should be hired; she’s got an impeccable accent (BBC English) and is easily understood.
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October 02, 2025, 10:35 AM
smschulz
Whenever I hear that "AI" voice, I immediately click away on any YouTube video. It's awful and I refuse to listen.
October 02, 2025, 11:13 AM
tatortodd
As a test for non-Houstonians, reply back with the phonetic pronunciation of Kuykendahl.
Texas had German and Czechoslovakian settlers so this is a good example of why AI/gps/etc. mispronounces names.
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October 02, 2025, 12:01 PM
PHPaul
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Originally posted by tatortodd: As a test for non-Houstonians, reply back with the phonetic pronunciation of Kuykendahl.
Texas had German and Czechoslovakian settlers so this is a good example of why AI/gps/etc. mispronounces names.
COY-ken-doll. My great aunt was married to one briefly.
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
October 02, 2025, 12:38 PM
tatortodd
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Originally posted by PHPaul:
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Originally posted by tatortodd: As a test for non-Houstonians, reply back with the phonetic pronunciation of Kuykendahl.
Texas had German and Czechoslovakian settlers so this is a good example of why AI/gps/etc. mispronounces names.
COY-ken-doll. My great aunt was married to one briefly.
That is not how the Texas Germans pronounced it: Kirk-en-doll
A good example of why automated pronunciation is so difficult.
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October 02, 2025, 03:50 PM
Mr. Peteroniman
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Originally posted by ChuckFinley: Particularly in Mobile, AL.
or Gautier, MS (pronounced Go-shay) it's really neat when they hire a new weather person, also
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October 06, 2025, 09:47 AM
ccwguy
Because we do not have a truly phonic alphabet. The 26 individual symbols of the alphabet make 44 different sounds. And then when you combine them in different and random order? I assume the program cannot decide the intended pronunciation from all the possible variable combinations. Not to mention regional dialect and usage.
October 06, 2025, 11:13 AM
P250UA5
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Originally posted by tatortodd:
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Originally posted by PHPaul:
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Originally posted by tatortodd: As a test for non-Houstonians, reply back with the phonetic pronunciation of Kuykendahl.
Texas had German and Czechoslovakian settlers so this is a good example of why AI/gps/etc. mispronounces names.
COY-ken-doll. My great aunt was married to one briefly.
That is not how the Texas Germans pronounced it: Kirk-en-doll
A good example of why automated pronunciation is so difficult.
The other is Fuqua in S Houston.
The Enemy's gate is down.
October 06, 2025, 11:20 AM
ZSMICHAEL
I wonder if we could teach Ai to pronounce Detroit as Detroit city for the Southern viewers. Or Shy town for Chicago for the hipsters. It would make the weather report more interesting.
October 06, 2025, 11:46 AM
PHPaul
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Originally posted by tatortodd:
quote:
Originally posted by PHPaul:
COY-ken-doll. My great aunt was married to one briefly.
That is not how the Texas Germans pronounced it: Kirk-en-doll
A good example of why automated pronunciation is so difficult.
Huh. This was Michigan, and a good many years ago so either the local pronunciation was different or I mis-remember it.
Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.
