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This is funny my name is Simone, pronounced 'see-moh-nay' (Italian male), but both bots kept pronouncing it wrong, either like Simon or the English female version of Simone (Siy-mown). No matter how many times I tried to correct them and asked them to repeat it, they kept making the same mistake. It felt like I was talking to an idiot. I guess it has something to do with how my name is tokenized.


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bpanahij10/01/2024

We have the ability to send phonetic pronunciations as guidance, and this could be a great addition to our LLM/response generation stack! Adding a check for names and then adding in the phoneme.