TTS Can't Pronounce Hebrew Inside English
You pass a language ID to a multilingual TTS model, and every word in that utterance obeys it — including the ones that belong to a different language. That's why "Shabbat" sounds fine and "pinui binui" sounds like a bad impression. This episode unpacks a listener's proposed pipeline for code-switched speech: detect the Hebrew words written in Latin characters, map them to Hebrew script, and re-synthesize them with the right language parameter. The research says the problem is real and documented, the mapping step is a solved problem sitting on a shelf, and the detection step — the one…
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