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spit_evil_olive_tips ( spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 7 months ago

Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get AI-generated accented English instead

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Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get AI-generated accented English instead

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spit_evil_olive_tips ( spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 7 months ago
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Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead
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Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.
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    Huh. Fuckups like this have never happened before.

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      This seems like a kind of obvious and innocent mistake, really. So, what you have is an English voice model and Spanish voice model. You can give an English voice model Spanish and you can give a Spanish voice model English. Now, obviously the person that gave the Spanish voice model English text thought that it would translate for them. They were stupid. I don’t think this was malicious.

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