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Re:Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-spee... by zaken on Saturday January 24, 2026 @12:12AM (#46741267)
Oh man that space emergency example had me rolling
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Re:Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-spee... by albert_e on Saturday January 24, 2026 @03:57AM (#46742095)
Ha --

and the "Customer Service - Banking" scenario claims that it demos "accent control" and the prompt gives the agent a definitely non-indian name, yet the agents sounds 100% Indian - I found that hilarious but also isn't it a bad example given they are claiming accent control as a feature?

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Re:Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-spee... by mikkupikku on Saturday January 24, 2026 @07:21AM (#46742969)
"Sanni Virtanen", I guess it was meant to be Finnish? Maybe the "bank customer support" part threw the AI off, lmao.
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Re:Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-spee... by hnlmorg on Saturday January 24, 2026 @05:58AM (#46742555)
Oh wow. Thats definitely something…
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Re:Ask HN: What's the current best local/open speech-to-spee... by adabyron on Saturday January 24, 2026 @09:04AM (#46743643)
Changing my title to "Astronaut" right now... I'll be using that line as well anytime someone asks me to do something.
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