One thing I wish the text-to-speech people would prioritize is not destroying people's culture by pronouncing words incorrectly. The problem is that these text-

One thing I wish the text-to-speech people would prioritize is not destroying people's culture by pronouncing words incorrectly. The problem is that these text-to-speech systems are spreading the wrong pronunciations far and wide. Every kid growing up today is having place names, street names, etc, taught to them via Google Maps, Apple Maps, etc and often they're very wrong. In the bay area there's "Junípero Serra" which is usually read by text-to-speech systems as "June i pair oh sara" instead of "Wun ip airoh sara" (and I don't even know that's correct and I'm not good at phonetics to show where the accents go. I only know "June i pair oh sara" is not correct. It would be like if they said San Jose" as "San Joe's" as in like "This ball belongs to Joe. It's Joe's ball" -> "San Joe's" In Hawaii there's Kalakaua Parkway, the main street through Waikiki. It's pronounced "Kah lah kah oo ah", not "kah lah cow ah" which is what all the navigation systems say. It really feels like these languages are being destroyed by attrition. Each year a few percent less people know the correct way to pronounce something. I'm not into the whole French level of language protection but can't we at least put some effort into this?