Seriously, 15 times is my limit on correcting an LLM.
The name in question? Rach. Google absolutely cannot pronounce it in any other way than assuming I was referring to Louise Fletcher in the diminutive.
Specifying “long a” did nothing, and now I’m past livid. If you can’t handle a common English name, why would I trust you with anything else?
This is my breaking point with LLMs. They’re fucking idiotic and can’t learn how to pronounce English words auf Englisch.
I hope the VCs also die in a fire.
I swear, if I have to start misspelling things for computers to pronounce it correctly …
English is notoriously awful regarding orthography vs pronunciation. I actually thought you meant something that rhymed with Bach just looking at the name with a longer ‘a’ for some reason (which is weird since vowel length isn’t phonemic in English).
Edit: you probably also could have said “hard a” or something since it probably literally thinks ‘long a’ means ‘hold the a sound for a longer duration’ (which makes sense to me)
The Great Vowel Shift in Middle English should be well understood by a computer system given that it happened centuries ago.
“Long a” (in most European languages, this is “e,” and I can’t be fucked to look up the IPA [OK, after realising I should include the link, we’re talking about [aɪ]]) and “short a” (closest I can come up with is “ä” in German, though the throat positions are different [eɪ]) were literally taught to me as the educational term in first grade.
If the training corpus is so poor that what a 6-year-old understands in the '80s is utterly baffling, NLP hasn’t advanced near as much as it should have.