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You pass a language ID to a multilingual TTS model, and every word in that utterance obeys it — including the ones that belong to a different language. That's why "Shabbat" sounds fine and "pinui binui" sounds like a bad impression. This episode unpacks a listener's proposed pipeline for code-switched speech: detect the Hebrew words written in Latin characters, map them to Hebrew script, and re-synthesize them with the right language parameter. The research says the problem is real and documented, the mapping step is a solved problem sitting on a shelf, and the detection step — the one everyone assumes is easy — is the piece nobody has actually built. We also look at what the field has moved to instead of stitching clips, and why the elegant shortcut is blocked by an implementation gap rather than a theoretical one. Episode #242423 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/242423