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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by aasasd on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @12:06PM (#29652073)
> synthesized speech is common enough

I'm curious: where do you encounter much synthesized speech? In my ‘fairly general’ usage (if there is such a thing), I only hear it in YouTube tutorials when the author is totally reluctant to both use their voice and do on-screen text.

Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by retrac on Thursday December 23, 2021 @09:54AM (#29662377)
Bus stop announcements on transit, those annoying interactive phone menus, people asking Siri math questions they should be able to do in their head, stuff like that.