Google announced it has made a number of upgrades to Google Assistant so that the artificial intelligence-powered virtual assistant no longer mispronounces people's names, especially those that are ...

Google can listen to you pronounce a name and learn from it. I was JUST thinking about this topic yesterday... my housemate is named Maryam, but invariably Google speech-to-text will write it as ...

New research suggests a person's name, specifically hard-to-pronounce ones, could make the difference between landing a job or their resume ending up in the reject pile. What's in a name? Well, maybe ...

Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem like a daunting ambush of rogue consonants and surprise vowels. That’s because ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCBD) – Hurricane researchers predict we’re in for a busy season with an estimated 23 named storms. While we don’t know when or where the first storm will form – or who will be ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — It’s no secret that Upstate New York is known for having difficult to pronounce names for its cities, towns, and even bodies of water. This isn’t a new conversation as I’ve ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD)- August 31 is recognized as “National South Carolina Day” and celebrates the charm, history, and beauty of the Palmetto State. And whether you have lived in South Carolina your ...

“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare asked in Romeo and Juliet. “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as ...

This article was originally published in June 2017. For such a small state, New Jersey is packed with towns — 565, to be exact. And many of those towns, townships, boroughs and cities have multiple ...

(WHTM) – Pennsylvania is full of weird town names, but some of the Commonwealth’s town names are just plain hard to pronounce (if you aren’t from here). Not all of Pennsylvania’s weird town names are ...

ouston, at least when it comes to its street names, has never been one for consistency. The city’s streets get their names from Spanish, French, German, old Texas families and whatever a developer ...

Story and audio by Maureen O’Hare, illustrations by Leah Abucayan, CNN (CNN) — Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your Muirgheal? To the untrained eye, Irish names can seem ...