A game dev’s TTS keeps turning “rest in peace” into “crispy peas”

nptacek · x · 2026-07-24

A game developer says they're adding text-to-speech to an upcoming boomer shooter engine, but the phrase “rest in peace” keeps coming back as “crispy peas.” The whole joke is the audio/phonetic mismatch.

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