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Re:Show HN: I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio by akuji1993 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:52AM (#33731272)
Hey, your tool is not working great with german articles. It can't pronounce Umlauts and also has trouble with some pretty standard simple words.

I used this article as a test: https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/landespolitik/s...

Re:Show HN: I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio by Paul_Grsl on Thursday November 24, 2022 @09:19AM (#33731508)
I will look at why the charactere that Umlauts are not well pronounced. Do you have examples of other words? I will investigate :)

Danke für dein Feedback, das hilft mir wirklich weiter .

Re:Show HN: I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio by cauners on Thursday November 24, 2022 @10:28AM (#33732405)
On the same topic, in Latvian all the characters with diacritics are stripped out completely. For example, "iedzīšana" is pronounced as "iedzana", making the audio pretty funny, though hard to understand.
Re:Show HN: I made a tool using AI to convert articles to audio by Paul_Grsl on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:15AM (#33733005)
I'm working on solving these pronunciation problems for the special characters if I unlock one everything else will follow. Don't hesitate to sign up to be kept informed!