Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "he now praises the ipad"

Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by jstanley on Thursday January 03, 2013 @06:28PM (#5005362)

Has this been fixed? I've not been able to reproduce this.

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by barrkel on Thursday January 03, 2013 @07:13PM (#5005551)

It's reproducible for me in Google Now on my phone (Galaxy Nexus), but not in Google Translate.

Google Now is using a female American voice, but with low quality emphasis. Google Translate is using a male UK voice, with much better emphasis. I don't know how to configure each to choose which voice.

The Google Translate link in a comment elsewhere, that forces the American pronunciation (and high quality emphasis), reproduces it. The default, UK pronunciation, does not.

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by RenierZA on Friday January 04, 2013 @01:49AM (#5006573)

Seems British English gets the male voice and this only happens to the US female voice.

To switch to the US voice, use this link: http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en

After using that, I got the female voice and it "worked".

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by mmastrac on Thursday January 03, 2013 @06:30PM (#5005372)

I was able to reproduce this in Google Translate (as the bug pointed out).

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by gramsey on Thursday January 03, 2013 @06:30PM (#5005373)

It hasn't, change the resulting language to English and you'll see the issue is still occuring.

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by d0vs on Thursday January 03, 2013 @06:43PM (#5005428)

Still doesn't do it for me.

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by jghrng on Thursday January 03, 2013 @06:47PM (#5005449)

I think you'll need the female voice. No idea how to change that, though.

EDIT: Try the US version: http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/filled%20with

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by StavrosK on Thursday January 03, 2013 @07:09PM (#5005532)

This doesn't work for me, unfortunately. I keep getting the male voice.

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by ISL on Thursday January 03, 2013 @11:38PM (#5006294)

Still works.

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by zalew on Thursday January 03, 2013 @07:11PM (#5005539)

this one works for me, tx.

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