Spanish App Pronunciation Issues

Spanish speakers discuss how an app's English language model mishandles Spanish pronunciation, the app name sounding strange or inappropriate in Spanish, and requests for multilingual support including specific Spanish variants like Castilian or Mexican.

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US youtube.com gringationcancun.com transparent.com www.amny FAANG spanish english spain speaker language speak pronounce mexican pronounced american

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mbroncano May 6, 2017 View on HN

Same for colloquial Spanish indeed

sheeeep86 Dec 7, 2022 View on HN

It's interesting that the english language model is loaded and it's clearly trying to pronounce things in a spanish way.

Shorel Feb 12, 2015 View on HN

What has Spanish to do with this?

hibbelig Oct 4, 2020 View on HN

Thank you, I meant Castillian Spanish.

stevoski Aug 31, 2013 View on HN

Please: do this for Spanish! I live in Spain, and have a helluva time being understood when I speak Spanish.

hot_gril Jun 21, 2024 View on HN

This is like complaining that someone mentions the Spanish language instead of Español.

the_af Jun 26, 2019 View on HN

Which language? Spanish doesn't.

asendra Feb 26, 2016 View on HN

Well I'm Spanish after all ;)

Double_a_92 Nov 27, 2017 View on HN

Spaniard sounds like some insult...

capitanazo77 Jul 22, 2023 View on HN

Please make it multilingual (Spanish). Some people here don’t speak good english