ChatGPT is working wonders in terms of helping to save endangered languages. The Irish language is increasing in use in the Irish population, and ChatGPT is a game changer in learning to speak the language as resources are less available thansay, French or Spanish. Google Translate doesn’t even have text to speech or speech to text for Irishm but Advanced voice can speak Irish in real time and understand it too.
One large issue though, it’s very difficult to understand when ChatGPT speaks as it does not pronounce words correctly. It sounds sort of greek or something. The vowel sounds are like English, and it is lacking the ability to pronounce Irish consonants, and therefore probably for other languages too. It otherwise speaks very well so the experience is quite an uncanny valley vibe.
If this can be improved upon, it would be a huge deal for the Irish language, and I’d probably purchase the subscription to use advanced voice all day to practice.
There is a lot of content online that can be used to train ChatGPT on to fix its pronunciation.
Thank you.