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?

 

r/Louisiana icon
Go to Louisiana
•

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

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?

 

all 4 comments
sorted by: 
best (suggested)
disable inbox replies
 (?)
formatting helpcontent policy

[–]clamnaked 7 points  

You gotta go further northeast for that accent.

[–]Fogfy 2 points  

I've lived in south Louisiana my whole life 30 years and have never heard bless your heart, not even in south Texas or south MS. I live in the NO metro area and most people around here sound pretty clear, slightly different accents, but most younger people generally sound the same. Older folks can have pretty thick accents. Crown Point/Lafitte old folks and when I used to crab with my uncle some of the people going down LA23 I could not understand some of their words, but I got the gist. Personally, never had an issue with STT. Maybe I enunciate more when I use any app/program with my speech.

[–]millionair_janitor 1 point  

Bless ya heart “coyon”

Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)