Best Practice to enforce Spanish peninsular accent

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Hi everyone,
we have had trouble consistently getting realtime audio output in peninsular Spanish. The voice samples seem to be skewed towards south american Spanish, we have had some success by asking with almost every prompt to “speak in peninsular Spanish” but every ~10th word or so still comes out wrong.

Has anyone encountered and mastered this before?

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Normalmente digo que escriba en castellano, pero lo del acento sudamericano nunca se va del todo con realtime. Si te cambias a los modelos que solo hacen “speech to text” o STT tendras mas suerte pero no pueden charlar agilmente como gpt-realtime. !Suerte!

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Welcome to the dev community @mxzllr.

If I understand correctly, Peninsular Spanish is itself a group of distinct regional accents spoken in Spain’s Iberian Peninsula.

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Hence, it should be more effective to specify the regional accent for the model to adhere to it.

You can also prompt the model to speak as a person from a specific city, like Madrid for Castilian, Bilbao for Basque, or Seville for Andalusian accents, respectively.

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Ah very interesting. I sort of thought that the sample size was muddled with different accents without being clearly marked, it never occured to me that it might be not specific enough.

Will give it a try - thanks!

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Hi @sps, I’ve tried using the instruction “You speak in Spanish from Spain, WITH A PENINSULAR CASTILIAN ACCENT FROM A PERSON OF MADRID THIS IS MANDATORY”, but it’s not working; the accent is still very much like South American Spanish. Has anyone had success with a set of instructions?

Thank you so much in advance, any help will be really appreciated.

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Buenas! Tienes novedades con respecto a esto? Me encuentro con el mismo problema exactamente

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Desafortunadamente, no hay gran noticia. Lo más destacan es que si se han publicado nuevos modelos mejorados, y hay alguna técnica para mejorar el comportamiento del modelo, pero la raíz del problema permanece. Si puedes especificar un poco más lo que te está ocurriendo, quizás pudiera sugerir algún apaño. Estamos aún en una temporada muy pionera de esta tecnología, pero aún así es impresionante lo que podemos hacer con ella.

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can we put in contact via discord or whatever so that i can explain my problem with more detail?