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Was that not nationwide? I guess I had just assumed it was as all my local McDs have it. Seems to work just fine the few times I’ve tried it, but as a native s
by MBCook 2y ago
Was that not nationwide? I guess I had just assumed it was as all my local McDs have it.
Seems to work just fine the few times I’ve tried it, but as a native speaker of US English without much of regional accent I’m not exactly a tough test.
- spaceship__sun 2y agoThey are probably using 5+yr old STT model and then passing to an LLM. I think GPT4o's purpose is to solve this
- eesmith 2y agoIs that more probable than using off-shore low-paid workers, like Carl’s Jr. and others (as mentioned in the article), or like the "Just Walk Out" technology at Amazon Fresh stores?
- DebtDeflation 2y agoThis article even says as much: https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-ai-voice-order-technology-drive-thrus-2024-6 https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-ai-voice-order-tec... >Under the partnership, IBM acquired McD Tech Labs, which McDonald's created after taking control of the AI speech company Apprente in 2019. Probably also using the cheapest non-noise-cancelling microphones they could find at the time.