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I have my phone set up in English. Google maps is hilarious and basically unusable when it tries to pronounce street names.
by MomoXenosaga 5y ago
I have my phone set up in English. Google maps is hilarious and basically unusable when it tries to pronounce street names.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoA majority of the street names around Santa Fe where I live are named in Spanish. I'm always quite impressed that (english language) gmaps manages to say "Suh-ree-os" for "Cerrillos", but every once in a while it totally goofs up some Spanish streetname, for no apparent reason.
- Y_Y 5y agoThis happens in Ireland too. Even though mostly people speak English, a lot of the place names have a spelling that's a compromise between the Irish Language original and the "Anglicised" pronunciation. Any system (including Google Maps) that doesn't specifically add phonetic pronunciation has no hope. Good examples include "Graiguenamanagh", "Dun Laoighre" and the classic "Cobh".
- eythian 5y agoWhile my phone is in English, I have Google Maps set to Dutch so that it will pronounce street names correctly (in English it'll butcher "Spui", but however it says "Utrechtsestraat" is pretty much unrecognisable.) However there's an annoying/funny bug. If you open maps and start navigation, it's fine. However if, while navigation is running, you switch to another app temporarily, the language voice will change to the English voice, but the direction-generation part will still be generating directions in Dutch. This then becomes the worst of all possible worlds, as not only are the street names being butchered, but the instructions are too. In particular, "sla rechtsaf" (turn right) becomes "ess ell aye rektsaaf" as it thinks it's an acronym.