DeepSeek just killed me

Started by Quin, March 28, 2025, 08:01:52 AM

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Quin

This is one of the most hellarious hallucinations I've managed to get out of an AI chatbot. Not nearly as good as the time Google's AI image description told me my computer booting into the BIOS was a video of a person holding an orange, but this was pretty good.
I asked DeepSeek what it knew about ETI Eloquence, and what the Delta system was, and how it played into Eloquence's development. This is what I got (links explaining below):
QuoteEti Eloquence was a popular screen reader for Windows, developed by the Belgian company Eti (European Technology for the Blind) in the 1990s and early 2000s. It was widely used by blind and visually impaired individuals to access computers, particularly before more modern screen readers like JAWS and NVDA became dominant.
The Delta System in Eti Eloquence
The Delta system was a key feature of Eti Eloquence, designed to enhance speech output by allowing users to customize pronunciation, speech rate, pitch, and other parameters. It was essentially a speech synthesis management system that provided fine-grained control over how text was vocalized.
ETI eloquence is, in fact, a speech synthesizer, not a screen reader. the JAWS for Windows screen reader uses it as its default, and I use it with my screen reader of choice, NVDA. The delta system was a system internal to Eloquence that allowed for the ease of writing of language-to-sound rules. So, DeepSeek missed the mark pretty badly on this one.
Also, how does ETI, stand for European Technologies for the...blind?
Sources about Eloquence: https://www.synfonicaspeech.com/pdf/ICPhS99.pdf

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