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Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish
- WheelsAtLarge 5y agoI wonder if it's a real person or an AI?
- Sebb767 5y agoProbably a person? If you extend the query [0], the pronunciation seems right (not a speaker, though) and it seems to be a different voice. EDIT: A sister comment mentioned it is due to it being the end of a sentence. The bug (?) does indeed persist if the word is at the end of a sentence. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=rooster+eating+a+pizza+in+spanish https://www.google.com/search?q=rooster+eating+a+pizza+in+sp... [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=pizza+eating+a+rooster+in+spanish https://www.google.com/search?q=pizza+eating+a+rooster+in+sp...
- wiradikusuma 5y agoTry clicking the speaker icon (to play audio) a few times, it's alternating the voice/accent/tone (I don't know the term).
- pottertheotter 5y agoIt's actually just slowing down the audio the second time you click it. I assume so that you can hear the pronunciation a bit better.
- ipsum2 5y agoIt's an AI. You can see that the endpoint is TTS. Also, props to Google for getting it so good that people think its a human voice.
- the_pwner224 5y agoWhat's interesting about this? I don't know Spanish.
- larsiusprime 5y agoIt's pronounced correctly but she seems to be pronouncing it in a kind of strangely enthusiastic sort of lilt
- jaimex2 5y agoThe TTS sounds drunk on the spanish side.
- fuzxi 5y agoThe tone is really...enthusiastic? Try listening to gallos ("roosters") for comparison.
- bikamonki 5y agoIn Spanish, voice cracks in male teens are called "gallos". The AI sounds just like one :)
- jaimex2 5y agoWeird, making the english side be "Gayo" makes it pronounce correctly. As does adding a ? at the end of Rooster. If you make the english side 'rooster house' the glitch is still present. It's not a double LL problem either. 'Shut up' works fine.
- Epenthesis 5y agoSeems to use the same uh, emphatic pronunciation so long as "gallo" is at the end of the translation sentence. Any text with something after "gallo" sounds more normal.
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- larsiusprime 5y agoIs it just me or does it seem to last a bit longer on every second play?
- sk0g 5y agoJust tested with a few common languages, and it seems like the pronunciations alternate. Both sound silly in this case, but one much more so.
- yout2 5y agoI think it does that for any translation term, I guess so that people can click again to hear it pronounced very clearly.
- mavelikara 5y agoI think this is a Google Translate feature, and one of my favorite examples of "Do what I mean" UX. If you click again, for any word, it guesses that you didn't get the pronunciation the first time, so it speaks slowly. This is what humans would do too, in this situation.
- chippy 5y agowhat a marvelous bit of UX.
- fallinghawks 5y agoYes, the second one is slowed down to help you hear it better. It does this for all playback in Translate.
- yout2 5y agoIt does the same for "pico de gallo", with comic effect. (But not "gallo pinto".)
- 20after4 5y agotranslating pico de gallo into various languages is fun. Most are untranslated other than a different accent. But a few are unique... Like french https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&sl=es&tl=fr&text=pico+de+gallo&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&sl=es&tl=fr&text=pico+de...
- SlowBall 5y agoCould be some kind of joke/Easter egg. In spanish "Gallo" is also used to refer to that high pitch that sometimes comes randomly when speaking, more commonly in male teenagers. Which is similar to what's happening here.
- senkora 5y agoIn English that’s called a voice crack.
- capableweb 5y agoAlso called "Passaggio" if it's on purpose :) As a side-note, "In English" is too broad as the English spoken in the US, Australia and the UK is all different. I always felt it would be better if people specified their location rather than the mother-language when talking about what something is called in English. Same for Spanish as well, as different words mean different things depending on if you're in Spain, Argentina or any other Spanish-speaking country.
- C19is20 5y agoAs a non-native. Isn't it assumed 'english', means uk english, and anything localised is 'australian english....indian english', etc? I've even heard of 'scottish english'.
- froblesmartin 5y agoIt really depends on where you are, I think in Europe the English taught at school and considered the regular one is British English, but if you take movies/series/music, the broader one is US English.
- simiones 5y agoIn Romania at least, the English taught in school is American English, not British English.
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- ipsum2 5y agoTry the English pronunciation: https://www.google.com/search?q=cock%20a%20doodle%20doo%20in%20spanish https://www.google.com/search?q=cock%20a%20doodle%20doo%20in...
- SlowBall 5y agoThe Spanish translation is amazing
- killjoywashere 5y agoThere are two Spanish pronunciations. What am I missing here?
- pedrogpimenta 5y ago"polla un garabato doo" is the literal translation. "garabato" means "doodle", "doo" doesn't have a translation, "polla" means "cock", but surprisingly, the totally slang way of "cock" as in dick or penis. The correct translation is "¡qui-qui-ri-quí!" which is the sound a rooster makes.
- jcims 5y agoThis is fun. meow, argh, moo, chirp, ribbet.
- gitrog 5y agoWhat the hell: boom, bang, kaboom, ahoy, yippee ki yay.
- kstrauser 5y agoThat’s hilarious and I don’t often stumble across something that makes me giggle out loud.
- boulos 5y agoThe mobile app doesn’t do this (and sounds totally normal).
- Morales52 5y agoIt is not yet known if this is a bug or a Google joke. ... when entering the word “Rooster” in Spanish, and when translating it into English ..https://www.krogerfeed.net/ https://www.krogerfeed.net/
- jwilber 5y agoFor another Easter egg: google “recursive’
- sxp 5y agoDid you mean [Recursion]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Recursion https://www.google.com/search?q=Recursion
- system2 5y agoI don't hear anything special for both words?
- nosianu 5y agoHe wrote "google" instead of "translate" so I think he was referring to the fact that Google keeps asking > Did you mean: Recursion when you search for "Recursion" so you can click on that search suggestion and follow it forever. Just my interpretation of the comment and what I found though. https://www.google.com/search?q=Recursion https://www.google.com/search?q=Recursion
- aix1 5y agoGoogle "askew" :)
- kwhitefoot 5y agoThank you for mentioning that, made me smile! Edit: Is there a list of such things?
- gabrielsroka 5y agoGoogle ”anagram”
- aix1 5y agoHere is one list of Google search Easter eggs: https://searchengineland.com/the-big-list-of-google-easter-eggs-153768 https://searchengineland.com/the-big-list-of-google-easter-e... (Some might be obsolete.)
- gullevek 5y agoIt is in japanese for me because that is my default setting.
- whoisjuan 5y agoThat’s hilarious! Totally intentional.
- charlesmunger8 5y agoDoesn't happen unless on desktop website. App and mobile won't play it
- donpott 5y agoThere's some videos where it seems to reproduce in the mobile version of Google Maps. See: https://www.portaldecadiz.com/provinciacadiz/63098-video-esto-hace-google-maps-cuando-coge-por-fuente-del-gallo-en-conil-y-se-hace-viral https://www.portaldecadiz.com/provinciacadiz/63098-video-est...
- yosito 5y agoThank you. I was listening to a normal pronunciation on mobile and was very confused until I saw this video.
- timonoko 5y agoGoogle translates politically correct sentences only: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KzyMWvVyJDLo3DC58 https://photos.app.goo.gl/KzyMWvVyJDLo3DC58
- sillysaurusx 5y agoI was wondering about that. I was trying to translate the equivalent of "What the fuck did you just fucking say about me" the other day, and it came out surprisingly wholesome when reverse translated. Is there an urban dictionary equivalent of google translate anywhere? Maybe whatever Microsoft does...
- timonoko 5y agoGoogle seems to have locked common swear words to their real meanings. It was popular pasttime to teach Google to translate them into politicians' names. For example "Dickhead" was the longest time "Kekkonen".
- BlackLotus89 5y agoCan't reproduce. A link to your google translate page would be nice. I get "As a general murmur and some clown trial would end in time petty embarrassed" https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=Yle-m%C3%B6lin%C3%A4%20ja%20joku%20pelleoikeudenk%C3%A4ynti%20p%C3%A4%C3%A4ttyisi%20kyll%C3%A4%20aika%20helevetin%20nolosti&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=Yle-m%C3%B6... And here the archive.is snapshot https://archive.is/hXIEW https://archive.is/hXIEW which shows yet something different...
- timonoko 5y agoFirst word was a (leftist) trigger-word. Somebody made a great effort to teach Google to not translate any sentences containing it. This issue has now been corrected, when it became public.
- BlackLotus89 5y ago
- system2 5y agoI didn't expect to laugh midnight like this. Thanks.
- adamtulinius 5y agoIt sounds right if you open it in google translate: https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=es&text=rooster&op=translate https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=es&text=rooster&op=tr... (The original link ends up trying to translate the actual English word "rooster" from Spanish to Danish when I open it. Thanks Google.)
- make3 5y agostrange, so they're not using the same voice model depending on the page. This model sounds more "mechanical", even though it's definitely better here
- atum47 5y agoReminded me of Señor Chang
- dkersten 5y agoHe was at least an excellent spanish teacher, who can't be killed.
- throwmyway99 5y agoA spanish genius
- ozfive 5y agoIf you type in chicken it will give a different annunciation.