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Recalculating: The surprising lives of GPS voices
Twenty Thousand Hertz
The Voice of Google Maps
Yarek Kerořenapunots is the voice of Google Maps in Poland. He says he didn't think much about the job at first, but now it's one of his many jobs. His directions were cut together from a limited number of phrases. Unlike Australian Karen Jacobson who can be made to say pretty much anything? Yarek's voice system couldn't say specifics like street names.
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