Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "he now praises the ipad"

"Larry Page used to use an Android. But that is now at an end with" works just great. :)<p><a href="http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Larry%20Page%20used%20to%20use%20an%20Android.%20But%20that%20is%20now%20at%20an%20end%20with" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Larry%20Page%2...</a>

Interesting that you can reproduce the bug by asking it to speak "filled with":<p><a href="http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/filled%20with" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/filled%20with</a><p>Or something like this (closer to the original bug):<p><a href="http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/patterned%20with" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/patterned%20with</a>

Looks like the 'filled with so much drama' quote is from here:<p><a href="http://www.macnn.com/articles/11/12/01/surprised.that.readers.willingly.share.data/" rel="nofollow">http://www.macnn.com/articles/11/12/01/surprised.that.reader...</a><p>Strange, it appears to be text from a random news article. Some kind of bad training data? Or memory corruption?

Does Google still allow translation suggestions &#38; help? Sounds like a cleverly executed prank that resulted in the database getting bad information added.<p>I'd cite a page number but I don't have the novel on me. I seem to recall I'm Feeling Lucky mentioning that in Google's infancy, the user translation project left curse words on an alternate language version of Google's homepage for a short time, which led to the abandonment of user translated material for important Google properties.<p>Edit: Mystery solved on the Reddit comments, it comes from <a href="http://fr.zicos.com/mac/i26331784-Hearst-magazine-CEO-offers-testimonial-on-iPad-publishing.html" rel="nofollow">http://fr.zicos.com/mac/i26331784-Hearst-magazine-CEO-offers...</a>. More info seems to reveal that "so much drama he now praises the iPad" will be spoken if "filled with" is used on Translate.

I just tested this on my Nexus 4 and it reproduced. I guess I now praise the iPad.

Reminds me of that bug back in 2007 when Google translate would take "sarkozy is chirac" and translate it into "Bush is classless" or other completely different text.<p><a href="http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/23/google-translates-strange-results/" rel="nofollow">http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/10/23/google-translates-stra...</a>

Has the issue been fixed already ? I was not able to reproduce it by doing a English to french translation of 'filled with' and doing a pronunciation. I did see the YouTube video demonstrating the problem though.

At the risk of engaging in humour on HN, when my computer starts to tell me "It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again", I will worry.

"lled wid" and "filmnd widd" also do it. "pilemd wid" and "demd widdd" add the word "attacks".<p>"condemned with with end with" and "demned go diamond with" are interesting.

TIL: fuzzy search turns up unexpected results that are sometimes amusing.

This is so much fun :)<p><a href="http://translate.google.com/#en/hi/Bill%20Gates%20went%20to%20the%20apple%20store%20enraged%20with" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/#en/hi/Bill%20Gates%20went%20to%...</a>

This one is great :) "Bill Gates went to buy his new Surface tablet. But being filled with so much drama he now praises the iPad." <a href="http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Bill%20Gates%20went%20to%20buy%20his%20new%20Windows%20tablet.%20But%20being%20filled%20with" rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Bill%20Gates%2...</a>

On Google Now <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW-79Rs7ORo&#38;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW-79Rs7ORo&#38;feature=youtu...</a><p>From:<p><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11jr75/need_some_body_to_help_confirm_something_on/c6n6n96" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11jr75/need_some_bo...</a>

Seems to happen with other words too:<p><a href="http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/patterned%20is%20with.." rel="nofollow">http://translate.google.com/#en/fr/patterned%20is%20with..</a>.<p>Produces: "Patterned is bad" or "Pattern this bad"

Reproduced this on my Galaxy Nexus.<p>Video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VifsRbAEsaM&#38;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VifsRbAEsaM&#38;feature=youtu...</a>

Has this been fixed? I've not been able to reproduce this.

Is it just me, or has Google been trolling Apple a lot lately? The "sell" search "bug" on their stocks site, now this?

Wow, this speaks volumes about their QA process, especially for Android. This bug is known since October '12, how hard can it be for a company with 50k employees to fix a bug like this?

Trap street?

Still works better than iOS Maps did at least.

in b4 apple patent infringement suit