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Machine: "Take the second exit onto klounz road"
pocmloc: "It's klou-NEZ you stupid machine"
Machine: ... <parses example pronounciation>
<stores for future use>
<shares online with its robot masters for reprogramming all other machines>
Presumably there would be a system to stop
hilarious wags gaming the system by shouting spoof names. Perhaps the network would aggregate a lot of corrections; perhaps one's shouts would be weighted based on ones general overall social credit as scored by detailed AI monitoring of ones online and real-world offline communications and actions.
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"Take the second exit onto klounz road." |
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"It's pronounced klou-NEZ, actually." |
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"I've always called it 'klounz'" |
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"Yes, but it should be pronounced klou-NEZ. It's from a dialect word meaning 'watermeadow'" |
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"Oh, hark at Mister bloody Know-All. I've only lived round here most of my life, after all." |
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"Where now ? Do we turn again ?" |
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"What ? Are you talking to me ?" |
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"Yes, do we have to make another turn ?" |
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"How should I know ? After all, I can't even pronounce the names in my home town properly. I can't be expected to navigate, can I ? I don't know why I came." |
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"Errr, well, you were the one they invited ..." |
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(silence lasting remainder of evening) |
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Even a SatNav that mispronounces EVERY name is better than that ... |
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