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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by tredre3 on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:08PM (#37626979)
> Then the third sentence in the text says "1793-05". The audio was "1793 to 2005". Actually it was 1793 to 1805.

Bit of a tangent here but did you get 1805 from context or is YYYY-YY a common year range notation that I'm not aware of? Because I would never guess 1793-05 meant 1793-1805 either.

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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by d3w4s9 on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:34PM (#37627247)
> Because I would never guess 1793-05 meant 1793-1805 either.

Read more books.

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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by saulpw on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:24PM (#37627149)
Sure, it's awkward, but how about "1793 to oh-five"? Instead of inserting incorrect content.
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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by fnordpiglet on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:13PM (#37627026)
It’s not but it’s obvious from the context, which I think is the point. A GPT-4 LLM could probably figure it out from context, but most text to speech models probably don’t have as much semantic training.
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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by hadlock on Saturday September 23, 2023 @05:55PM (#37627905)
1898-02 or 1998-02 would be the years someone attended high school or college. The context of when it was written, either in 1905 or 2023 can be important. Seems to be pretty common notation when spanning centuries, particularly +/- 10 years. I grew up during the turn of the century and seemed to be quite common.
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