アメリカのテクノロジーニュースから。
アマゾンで発売されているKindle（電子書籍）がオバマ大統領の名前を正確に発音できないとのこと。
”Barack Obamaが・・・Brack Alabamaに”
アマゾンで発売されているKindle（電子書籍）がオバマ大統領の名前を正確に発音できないとのこと。
”Barack Obamaが・・・Brack Alabamaに”
日本人には黒いアラバマ？と聞こえるのでは。
もっている方は、一度試してみてください。
もっている方は、一度試してみてください。
後、CA州知事のシュワルツネガーも正確でないとのことです。
(以下yahoo tech newsより一部抜粋)
There are the usual technology bugs, and then there are high-tech embarrassments that are way out of the ordinary. This one is perhaps the strangest quirk I've heard of
since reading the story of a user whose bracelet with a magnetic clasp
was tricking her notebook into thinking the lid was closed, but this one's far more humiliating for the manufacturer than a little jewelry snafu. Namely: Amazon's vaunted Kindle
can't properly pronounce the name of the President of the United States.
That's a bit of a problem when you're positioning your product as a replacement for newspapers -- where coverage of the President is a daily event -- and touting its read-aloud system as well.
The New York Times (no stranger to writing about the Prez) says that the name "Barack Obama," when read aloud by the Kindle's computerized text-to-speech system, sounds something like "Brack Alabama."