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Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "he now praises the ipad"
- mmastrac 14y agoInteresting that you can reproduce the bug by asking it to speak "filled with": http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/filled%20with http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/filled%20with Or something like this (closer to the original bug): http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/patterned%20with http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/patterned%20with
- EvanAnderson 14y agoYour first link got me "Filled with so much drama he now praises the iPad". Tee-hee... Edit: Youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyCGrWMk8Ws http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyCGrWMk8Ws
- jlgreco 14y agoAlong similar lines: http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/hit%20his%20head%20so%20hard%20with http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/hit%20his%20head%20so%20h... ;)
- mmastrac 14y agoHah, well done. That is awesome.
- nealabq 14y agohttp://translate.google.com/#en/fr/stupid%20as%20a%20diamond%20with http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/stupid%20as%20a%20diamond...
- EGreg 14y agohttp://translate.google.com/#en/fr/After%20Larry%20Page%20unfortunately%20hit%20his%20head%2C%20he%20renounced%20android%20so%20hard%20with http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/After%20Larry%20Page%20un...
- EvanAnderson 14y agoI just couldn't resist... >sigh< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbHzcWMMpec http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbHzcWMMpec
- wiradikusuma 14y agoweird. i opened the link and played it, cannot reproduce :(
- EGreg 14y ago"dumbed with" skips the "with so much drama"
- jstanley 14y agoHas this been fixed? I've not been able to reproduce this.
- RenierZA 14y agoSeems British English gets the male voice and this only happens to the US female voice. To switch to the US voice, use this link: http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en After using that, I got the female voice and it "worked".
- mmastrac 14y agoI was able to reproduce this in Google Translate (as the bug pointed out).
- gramsey 14y agoIt hasn't, change the resulting language to English and you'll see the issue is still occuring.
- donpdonp 14y agoTIL: fuzzy search turns up unexpected results that are sometimes amusing.
- inigoesdr 14y agoIt appears to be slightly more complicated than that.
- tarice 14y agoI just tested this on my Nexus 4 and it reproduced. I guess I now praise the iPad.
- tarice 14y agoIf you look at comment 11 [1] in the article, it points to [2] as being the source of the TTS hiccup. It also points out that speaking the phrase "filled with" spits out the rest of the text [3]. [1] http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38538#c11 http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=38538#c11 [2] http://fr.zicos.com/mac/i26331784-Hearst-magazine-CEO-offers-testimonial-on-iPad-publishing.html http://fr.zicos.com/mac/i26331784-Hearst-magazine-CEO-offers... [3] http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/filled%20with http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/filled%20with
- eliben 14y agoAllow me to express my envy for your having a Nexus 4, the unattainable device...
- cosmok 14y agoI was able to reproduce this on a Galaxy Nexus.
- nailer 14y agoConfirmed on Cyanogenmod 10.1.
- Shank 14y agoDoes Google still allow translation suggestions & help? Sounds like a cleverly executed prank that resulted in the database getting bad information added. I'd cite a page number but I don't have the novel on me. I seem to recall I'm Feeling Lucky mentioning that in Google's infancy, the user translation project left curse words on an alternate language version of Google's homepage for a short time, which led to the abandonment of user translated material for important Google properties. Edit: Mystery solved on the Reddit comments, it comes from http://fr.zicos.com/mac/i26331784-Hearst-magazine-CEO-offers-testimonial-on-iPad-publishing.html http://fr.zicos.com/mac/i26331784-Hearst-magazine-CEO-offers.... More info seems to reveal that "so much drama he now praises the iPad" will be spoken if "filled with" is used on Translate.
- justincormack 14y agoFacebook I think not Google http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/29/facebook_translation_turkey_prank/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/29/facebook_translation...
- tramster 14y agoI was able to generate it with "Killed with" as well.
- meric 14y agoOn Google Now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW-79Rs7ORo&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW-79Rs7ORo&feature=youtu... From: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11jr75/need_some_body_to_help_confirm_something_on/c6n6n96 http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11jr75/need_some_bo...
- emehrkay 14y agoDoes the same thing on the nexus 7, but with a lot of stuttering.
- dmethvin 14y agoReminds me of that bug back in 2007 when Google translate would take "sarkozy is chirac" and translate it into "Bush is classless" or other completely different text. http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/23/google-translates-strange-results/ http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/23/google-translates-stra...
- rmc 14y agoThis is probably just an artifact of how Google Translate works. It uses statistics to see corresponding terms and presumes that that's how it's translated. Sarkozy used to be president of France, Bush of USA. What was probably happening was that the phrase "President Bush" was being matched up against "président Sarkozy". So it figures out "President" in French is "président" (correct) and "Bush" in French is "Sarkozy" (incorrect). Sometimes "Baile Átha Cliath" (the Irish for "Dublin", the capital city of Ireland) gets translated as "London" (the capital of the UK). This is due to Google Translate trying to match up Laws in Ireland (in the Irish language) with UK laws (which would be very similar or potentially based on the same original law). However in the Irish law "Baile Átha Cliath" would be replaced with "London". Here's an example of it: http://translate.google.com/#ga/en/L%C3%A1%20alainn%20inniu%.. http://translate.google.com/#ga/en/L%C3%A1%20alainn%20inniu%....
- mikeash 14y agoMy favorite one, since fixed, was translating "amistad" from Spanish to English. It would produce, of course, "friendship". Translate "amistad!" with an exclamation point, and it produced "friendship!" Adding more, "amistad!!" produced "friendship!!" But once you got up to five or so, it suddenly switched and produced "murder!"
- nealabq 14y ago"lled wid" and "filmnd widd" also do it. "pilemd wid" and "demd widdd" add the word "attacks". "condemned with with end with" and "demned go diamond with" are interesting.
- brownbat 14y agoFor "demned," see: http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/Minister%20Gordon%20Brown%20condemned%20video http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/Minister%20Gordon%20Brown... Original article: http://mobile.france24.com/en/20090312-dispute-grows-over-frances-piracy-law- http://mobile.france24.com/en/20090312-dispute-grows-over-fr...
- sshumaker 14y agoLooks like the 'filled with so much drama' quote is from here: http://www.macnn.com/articles/11/12/01/surprised.that.readers.willingly.share.data/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/11/12/01/surprised.that.reader... Strange, it appears to be text from a random news article. Some kind of bad training data? Or memory corruption?
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- thefreeman 14y agoin b4 apple patent infringement suit
- seanlinehan 14y agoTrap street?
- jervisfm 14y agoHas the issue been fixed already ? I was not able to reproduce it by doing a English to french translation of 'filled with' and doing a pronunciation. I did see the YouTube video demonstrating the problem though.
- ytadesse 14y agoJust tried it again and it still 'works' for me.
- jan_g 14y agoI can't reproduce it either, perhaps it has something to do with localized and personalized stuff that Google always tries to slap on every request (obviously, I'm not from US). EDIT: it works if I use one of the provided links (see comments below) for US female voice.
- archgoon 14y agoI just tested this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bin1y7AxLdM&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bin1y7AxLdM&feature=youtu...
- kodeninja 14y agoThis is so much fun :) http://translate.google.com/#en/hi/Bill%20Gates%20went%20to%20the%20apple%20store%20enraged%20with http://translate.google.com/#en/hi/Bill%20Gates%20went%20to%...
- rvkennedy 14y agoAt the risk of engaging in humour on HN, when my computer starts to tell me "It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again", I will worry.
- epaga 14y ago"Larry Page used to use an Android. But that is now at an end with" works just great. :) http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Larry%20Page%20used%20to%20use%20an%20Android.%20But%20that%20is%20now%20at%20an%20end%20with http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Larry%20Page%2...
- gulbrandr 14y agoOn translate.google.com [1] it works fine. [1] http://translate.google.com/?hl=en#auto/en/Larry%20Page%20used%20to%20use%20an%20Android.%20But%20that%20is%20now%20at%20an%20end%20with http://translate.google.com/?hl=en#auto/en/Larry%20Page%20us...
- rehack 14y agoI tried with "Apple hypnotized the Google founder with a magic wand, end with..." :-) http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#en/fr/Apple%20hypnotized%20the%20Google%20founder%20with%20a%20magic%20wand%2C%20end%20with.. http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#en/fr/Apple%20hypnotiz.... Apparently happens with all the statements suffixed with "end with"
- Buttons840 14y agoLarry Page is filled with so much drama... http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Larry%20Page%20used%20to%20use%20an%20Android.%20But%20being%20filled%20with http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Larry%20Page%2...
- sroecker 14y agoWow, this speaks volumes about their QA process, especially for Android. This bug is known since October '12, how hard can it be for a company with 50k employees to fix a bug like this?
- midko 14y agoThis has got nothing to do with Android other than the fact that google translate and voice synthesis is available on Android.
- sroecker 14y agoYes I know, this is a bug in Google Translate. However, the bug was found by a user using Google Now and was reported in the Android issue tracker. The issue was described very well and is reproducible. I am criticizing that nobody seems to check the reported issues and the time it takes for Google to fix the reported problems.
- smosher 14y agoIt's a travesty.
- varjag 14y agoAs already mentioned it is not an Android bug. As long as one uses statistical machine learning, edge cases like this are unavoidable.
- antsam 14y agoStill works better than iOS Maps did at least.
- gambiting 14y agoReproduced this on my Galaxy Nexus. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VifsRbAEsaM&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VifsRbAEsaM&feature=youtu...
- obituary_latte 14y agoSeems to happen with other words too: http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/patterned%20is%20with.. http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/patterned%20is%20with... Produces: "Patterned is bad" or "Pattern this bad"
- chrisringrose 14y agoIs it just me, or has Google been trolling Apple a lot lately? The "sell" search "bug" on their stocks site, now this?
- brano 14y agoThis one is great :) "Bill Gates went to buy his new Surface tablet. But being filled with so much drama he now praises the iPad." http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Bill%20Gates%20went%20to%20buy%20his%20new%20Windows%20tablet.%20But%20being%20filled%20with http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Bill%20Gates%2...