Google Translate pronounces 'rooster' in Spanish

[SlowBall]

Could be some kind of joke/Easter egg.

In spanish "Gallo" is also used to refer to that high pitch that sometimes comes randomly when speaking, more commonly in male teenagers. Which is similar to what's happening here.

[stavros]

Same in Greek (though we use the Greek word for "rooster", obviously). I've found that Greek and Spanish oddly share many, many idioms.

[senkora]

In English that’s called a voice crack.

[InvaderFizz]

This explanation matches what my Mexican wife just said to me when I showed her the link.

[folex]

Same in Russian, rooster (petooh) is used for high pitched voice crack. "Made a rooster".

[101008]

I am from Latin America and I never heard it. Is this something used in Spain?

[ipsum2]

Try the English pronunciation: https://www.google.com/search?q=cock%20a%20doodle%20doo%20in...

[SlowBall]

The Spanish translation is amazing

[jcims]

This is fun. meow, argh, moo, chirp, ribbet.

[larsiusprime]

Is it just me or does it seem to last a bit longer on every second play?

[mavelikara]

I think this is a Google Translate feature, and one of my favorite examples of "Do what I mean" UX. If you click again, for any word, it guesses that you didn't get the pronunciation the first time, so it speaks slowly. This is what humans would do too, in this situation.

[fallinghawks]

Yes, the second one is slowed down to help you hear it better. It does this for all playback in Translate.

[yout2]

I think it does that for any translation term, I guess so that people can click again to hear it pronounced very clearly.

[sk0g]

Just tested with a few common languages, and it seems like the pronunciations alternate. Both sound silly in this case, but one much more so.

[adamtulinius]

It sounds right if you open it in google translate: https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=es&text=rooster&op=tr...

(The original link ends up trying to translate the actual English word "rooster" from Spanish to Danish when I open it. Thanks Google.)

[make3]

strange, so they're not using the same voice model depending on the page. This model sounds more "mechanical", even though it's definitely better here

[kstrauser]

That’s hilarious and I don’t often stumble across something that makes me giggle out loud.

[Epenthesis]

Seems to use the same uh, emphatic pronunciation so long as "gallo" is at the end of the translation sentence. Any text with something after "gallo" sounds more normal.

[atum47]

Reminded me of Señor Chang

[dkersten]

He was at least an excellent spanish teacher, who can't be killed.

[the_pwner224]

What's interesting about this? I don't know Spanish.

[bikamonki]

In Spanish, voice cracks in male teens are called "gallos". The AI sounds just like one :)

[larsiusprime]

It's pronounced correctly but she seems to be pronouncing it in a kind of strangely enthusiastic sort of lilt

[fuzxi]

The tone is really...enthusiastic? Try listening to gallos ("roosters") for comparison.

[jaimex2]

The TTS sounds drunk on the spanish side.

[whoisjuan]

That’s hilarious! Totally intentional.

[charlesmunger8]

Doesn't happen unless on desktop website. App and mobile won't play it

[yout2]

It does the same for "pico de gallo", with comic effect. (But not "gallo pinto".)

[20after4]

translating pico de gallo into various languages is fun. Most are untranslated other than a different accent. But a few are unique... Like french https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&sl=es&tl=fr&text=pico+de...

[jaimex2]

Weird, making the english side be "Gayo" makes it pronounce correctly. As does adding a ? at the end of Rooster.

If you make the english side 'rooster house' the glitch is still present.

It's not a double LL problem either. 'Shut up' works fine.

[boulos]

The mobile app doesn’t do this (and sounds totally normal).

[WheelsAtLarge]

I wonder if it's a real person or an AI?

[Sebb767]

Probably a person?

If you extend the query [0], the pronunciation seems right (not a speaker, though) and it seems to be a different voice.

EDIT: A sister comment mentioned it is due to it being the end of a sentence. The bug (?) does indeed persist if the word is at the end of a sentence.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=rooster+eating+a+pizza+in+sp...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=pizza+eating+a+rooster+in+sp...

[ipsum2]

It's an AI. You can see that the endpoint is TTS. Also, props to Google for getting it so good that people think its a human voice.

[jwilber]

For another Easter egg: google “recursive’

[sxp]

Did you mean [Recursion]: https://www.google.com/search?q=Recursion

[ozfive]

If you type in chicken it will give a different annunciation.

[system2]

I didn't expect to laugh midnight like this. Thanks.

[gullevek]

It is in japanese for me because that is my default setting.

[timonoko]

Google translates politically correct sentences only: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KzyMWvVyJDLo3DC58

[BlackLotus89]

Can't reproduce. A link to your google translate page would be nice. I get "As a general murmur and some clown trial would end in time petty embarrassed"

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=Yle-m%C3%B6...

And here the archive.is snapshot https://archive.is/hXIEW which shows yet something different...

[sillysaurusx]

I was wondering about that. I was trying to translate the equivalent of "What the fuck did you just fucking say about me" the other day, and it came out surprisingly wholesome when reverse translated.

Is there an urban dictionary equivalent of google translate anywhere? Maybe whatever Microsoft does...