Well, that is how candle in the dark might sound on Kindle – Amazon’s vaunted book machine. Apparently, the “bookinator” pronounces “Barack” as “black” and “Obama” as “Alabama.” It pronounces “Celtics” with a hard c. The question is: was the coding outsourced to India? Just kidding folks.
The various justifications aside, speech recognition and rendition have come a long way – but is there ways to go?
