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Interesting piece on developing Irish Alexa via 'voice disentanglement', though some details seem off: I've seldom if ever heard anyone say 'bath' like 'bat' or 'bad', and the 'r' sound in Irish English is not 'overpronounced' – it's just pronounced, unlike in non-rhotic accents
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/technology/amazon-alexa-irish.html/ #language #linguistics #accent #Alexa #IrishEnglish #dialect #speech #generativeAI #Amazon
@stancarey
"The" Irish accent?
Niall Tóibín might have something to say about that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhLdKJnY194
@Sliotar That's a can of worms I opened before and avoided this time :D https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/southern-irish-accent-judged-most-attractive/
@stancarey I found the linguistics of this article to be pretty disappointing. In particular, I found the inconsistent use of the term "accent" (either as the whole phonetics/phonology of a language variety or as a specific aspect of prosody) to be deeply annoying.
@davidmortensen Yes. Obviously the journalist is not a linguist, but you'd hope a publication with NYT's resources could run it past a fact-checker or copy-editor with some training