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[quote=Anonymous]I help run a Departmental College graduation where we have ~165 names called. We have 2 faculty who've been doing the name reading for years - they get the list ahead of time and practice pronunciations from student-submitted help (voice memos and written phonetics). The readers alternate one by one, so the audience is not hearing the monotony of just one voice throughout a length of time, and it goes pretty well.

The idea of AI name reading (the good kind, where students pre-approve how it'll sound) has been floated as a number of graduations are using this nowadays. But I just saw a clip of a graduation where the AI glitched and missed reading some names, which would suck :( And at my own kid's recent ceremony, the students have to carry their phone across the stage (because a QR code is scanned before they cross to queue up the AI for their name). That wouldn't work well logistically for us since they are handed a diploma cover and do a handshake when they get onto the stage. We are not in a big arena, so the ceremony feels somewhat intimate despite being a big crowd & so to me, it seems awkward to have the names read by a disembodied entity. I asked one of our grads the other day who said she'd rather have a human read her name slightly mispronounced than have AI read it perfectly.

All that said, it's not my day, as it belongs to the students/families. So I ask you DCUM! For those who have attended COLLEGE ceremonies where names are called, especially if they are smaller (ie. &lt;200 graduates), would you prefer AI if we worked out the logistics or would you rather have good but not perfect Humans??? [/quote]

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