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Twenty Thousand Hertz

CHAPTER

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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