Google Maps gets better at pronouncing Māori placenames after years of complaints
- Google has launched a new voice for Maps in New Zealand that can correctly pronounce te reo Māori place names, after years of criticism over the navigation app’s mispronunciation of Indigenous names of cities and towns.
- The new AI-powered text-to-speech model, which began rolling out on Thursday, speaks English with a New Zealand accent while accurately pronouncing Māori names.
- The update was developed in partnership with Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, New Zealand’s Māori language commission, using pronunciation rules guided by the commission alongside publicly available data from the New Zeala
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- Google has launched a new voice for Maps in New Zealand that can correctly pronounce te reo Māori place names, after years of criticism over the navigation app’s mispronunciation of Indigenous names of cities and towns.
- The new AI-powered text-to-speech model, which began rolling out on Thursday, speaks English with a New Zealand accent while accurately pronouncing Māori names.
- The update was developed in partnership with Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, New Zealand’s Māori language commission, using pronunciation rules guided by the commission alongside publicly available data from the New Zeala
Sources: The Independent