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Re:Why I use non-American English voices in my text to speech by dunsany on Monday March 10, 2014 @06:01PM (#7375977)
Yeah, the problem we found is that when we switched to non-American English, Siri expects us to be speaking it as well... and messes up what she understands.
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Re:Why I use non-American English voices in my text to speech by yeukhon on Monday March 10, 2014 @06:53PM (#7376219)
That reminds me of this parody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU
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Re:Why I use non-American English voices in my text to speech by ilyanep on Monday March 10, 2014 @08:11PM (#7376588)
I'm really pleased that I knew exactly what this was before clicking. I send this to people anytime I see them fighting a speech-to-text engine.
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