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Are the voices backwards for anyone else? English sentences are read (unintelligibly) in a French voice and vice versa. http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=f727d42f

by xaybey 8y ago

Are the voices backwards for anyone else? English sentences are read (unintelligibly) in a French voice and vice versa. http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=f727d42f-7649-49b0-b583-99bb9463c907 http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=f727d42f-7649-49b0-b583-99bb9...

petecox 8y ago
There's definitely something strange with that text. Maybe it's individual metadata for Sherlock Holmes - when I tried Spanish to English worked on a different book it worked ok.
calinf 8y ago
Seems like you found a bug, works as expected for the other language combinations, we'll fix it a.s.a.p. Thanks!
- gnud 8y ago
  The German text here is also read by an english voice - http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=de-en-the-picture-of-dorian-gray http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=de-en-the-picture-of-dorian-g...
  - gnud 8y ago
    Also, in the german text the chapter markers ("Erstes Kapitel", "Zweites Kapitel") have been pulled into the paragraph following them, but they're missing completely in the english text.
- m4lvin 8y ago
  The Dutch Version of Tom Sawyer is read by an English voice.
- genezeta 8y ago
  On Firefox (locale is English): I speak Whatever, I want read Whatever else. Choose any book. Voice is English. The only exception is if I choose I want to read Spanish, but this is because I have installed a particular Spanish voice in my system, and that's the one that's used. On Vivaldi (browser's locale is Spanish): Anything is read with a Spanish voice, unless I choose I want to read English, then an English voice is used.
- glenneroo 8y ago
  Same with this: http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=02b82ad6-29ed-47dd-98af-4c4ff85faee4 http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=02b82ad6-29ed-47dd-98af-4c4ff... Unintelligible German spoken by an English voice. My German-speaking friend thought it was trying to speak Chinese!
kylnew 8y ago
Yeah I had the same issue. If my device locale is English the voice reads it like an apathetic 10th grader who refuses to try the accentuate properly while read French aloud in class. On the bright side it was a trip down memory lane to high school.
soegaard 8y ago
It's not even backwards. The voice doesn't match the languages chosen. On a machine with Danish locale it will read the french text with a danish voice. (I chose "learn french/know english")

by xaybey 8y ago

petecox 8y ago

There's definitely something strange with that text. Maybe it's individual metadata for Sherlock Holmes - when I tried Spanish to English worked on a different book it worked ok.

calinf 8y ago

Seems like you found a bug, works as expected for the other language combinations, we'll fix it a.s.a.p. Thanks!

gnud 8y ago
The German text here is also read by an english voice - http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=de-en-the-picture-of-dorian-gray http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=de-en-the-picture-of-dorian-g...
- gnud 8y ago
  Also, in the german text the chapter markers ("Erstes Kapitel", "Zweites Kapitel") have been pulled into the paragraph following them, but they're missing completely in the english text.
m4lvin 8y ago
The Dutch Version of Tom Sawyer is read by an English voice.
genezeta 8y ago
On Firefox (locale is English): I speak Whatever, I want read Whatever else. Choose any book. Voice is English. The only exception is if I choose I want to read Spanish, but this is because I have installed a particular Spanish voice in my system, and that's the one that's used. On Vivaldi (browser's locale is Spanish): Anything is read with a Spanish voice, unless I choose I want to read English, then an English voice is used.
glenneroo 8y ago
Same with this: http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=02b82ad6-29ed-47dd-98af-4c4ff85faee4 http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=02b82ad6-29ed-47dd-98af-4c4ff... Unintelligible German spoken by an English voice. My German-speaking friend thought it was trying to speak Chinese!

kylnew 8y ago

Yeah I had the same issue. If my device locale is English the voice reads it like an apathetic 10th grader who refuses to try the accentuate properly while read French aloud in class. On the bright side it was a trip down memory lane to high school.

soegaard 8y ago

It's not even backwards. The voice doesn't match the languages chosen. On a machine with Danish locale it will read the french text with a danish voice. (I chose "learn french/know english")