Seriously, 15 times is my limit on correcting an LLM.
The name in question? Rach. Google absolutely cannot pronounce it in any other way than assuming I was referring to Louise Fletcher in the diminutive.
Specifying “long a” did nothing, and now I’m past livid. If you can’t handle a common English name, why would I trust you with anything else?
This is my breaking point with LLMs. They’re fucking idiotic and can’t learn how to pronounce English words auf Englisch.
I hope the VCs also die in a fire.
There is a reason why people keep asking “How do you spell it?” when being told a name in English. The counterpart is, “How do you pronounce it?”.
Even with “long a”, I still can’t tell how would you want to pronounce “Rach”. I can come up with 4 different pronounciations right now: “Ra-ah-ch”, “Ra-ah”, “Ra-sh”, “Ra-kh”.
Given that OP says this is a common English name (it’s not), I have to imagine that they’re referring to the common short form of Rachel. Pronounced as just the first syllable.
It’s literally the English version of an Old Testament name. It’s not Aiden or whatever the new hotness is, but it’s not uncommon.
I feel like at least with American english people have taken a lot of liberties in how they spell a name and then want it pronounced.
And I first read it as Ra-sh, but also could see it as Ray-sh.
What did you do to “teach it”?