Friday, January 17, 2025

To those of you from "Bless-Your-Heart-land," (AKA the Deep South), when your accents make some words sound like other legit words (like "lock" in place of "like" and "dapper" in place of "diaper,") does that cause speech-to-text apps to give you trouble?

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To those of you from "Bless-Your-Heart-land," (AKA the Deep South), when your accents make some words sound like other legit words (like "lock" in place of "like" and "dapper" in place of "diaper,") does that cause speech-to-text apps to give you trouble?

Questions for Texans

If so, what words do speech-to-text apps mishear, what are you really trying to say right then, and how do you adapt?

And, bless the hearts of the devs who programmed these apps, what particular speech-to-text apps mishear you the most? How do you feel and react to their mis-texts? Any hilarious such examples you'd lock... er, like, to share?


[–]slippedintherain 8 points  

I don’t have any issues but I also grew up in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and don’t have much of an accent. I don’t think I would consider Texas as a whole the “Deep South” - maybe some of East Texas would qualify but as you move across the state the landscapes, lifestyle and accents change quite a bit. Also, I’ve never actually said “bless your heart” in my life, and I’ve never heard anyone I know apart from a couple of elderly relatives say it either.

[–][deleted] 3 points  

Born and raised in South East Texas on the Louisiana line and yeah... text to speech doesn't show me that much love. Although I have what I refer to as "lazy Cajun mouth" where I don't seem to annunciate as much as I should because my mouth takes shortcuts :)

[–]willmel 3 points  

Yes it does. I also stutter. Damn voice to text is all but useless...

[–]OnPaperImLazyBorn and Bred 3 points  

I'll the damn time.

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