{"id":17908,"date":"2015-03-01T22:06:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T03:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=17908"},"modified":"2015-03-01T22:06:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T03:06:29","slug":"voice-recognition-vs-shandong-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=17908","title":{"rendered":"Voice recognition vs. Shandong accent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following <a href=\"http:\/\/video.weibo.com\/show?fid=1034:bc829c1d69ca148034e7ebacf3193696\">video<\/a> is very popular in China now:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e2bYJVC8-uk?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"475\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is hilarious!<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don't understand Chinese, you'll be able to follow what's going on.\u00a0 The driver is trying to enter a phone number by voice, but the automated (machine) operator mishears him.\u00a0 It gets really funny when he tells the operator that a correction ( ji\u016bzh\u00e8ng \u7ea0\u6b63) must be made, but the operator interprets that as ji\u01d4li\u00f9 96.<\/p>\n<p>At first the female passenger thinks it's funny and giggles, but the driver gets more and more exasperated and angry, and ends up cursing at the operator.<\/p>\n<p>The driver has a tendency to mumble, as when he repeats b\u014dh\u00e0o \u62e8\u53f7 (\"dial\") near the beginning, and his tones are all over the place.\u00a0 The problem of tones in daily, spoken Sinitic languages will be the subject of a forthcoming post.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson to be learned:\u00a0 if you're talking to a machine, especially if you have a Shandong accent, you'd better speak slowly and clearly.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the driver has become famous because of this video and has acquired the nickname of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%E5%B1%B1%E4%B8%9C+%E7%BA%A0%E6%AD%A3+%E5%93%A5\" target=\"_blank\">ji\u016bzh\u00e8ng g\u0113 \u7ea0\u6b63\u54e5 (\"correction brother\")<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[h.t. Grace Wu]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following video is very popular in China now:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,215,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pronunciation","category-tones","category-topolects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17962,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17908\/revisions\/17962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}