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 sroecker on Friday January 04, 2013 @04:43AM (#5006940)

Wow, this speaks volumes about their QA process, especially for Android. This bug is known since October '12, how hard can it be for a company with 50k employees to fix a bug like this?

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by midko on Friday January 04, 2013 @05:05AM (#5006993)

This has got nothing to do with Android other than the fact that google translate and voice synthesis is available on Android.

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by sroecker on Friday January 04, 2013 @05:38AM (#5007067)

Yes I know, this is a bug in Google Translate. However, the bug was found by a user using Google Now and was reported in the Android issue tracker. The issue was described very well and is reproducible. I am criticizing that nobody seems to check the reported issues and the time it takes for Google to fix the reported problems.

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by smosher on Friday January 04, 2013 @09:49AM (#5007805)

It's a travesty.

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Re:Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "h... by varjag on Friday January 04, 2013 @05:16AM (#5007026)

As already mentioned it is not an Android bug.

As long as one uses statistical machine learning, edge cases like this are unavoidable.

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