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Pizzalover4783 opened this issue May 22, 2025 · 1 comment

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Pizzalover4783 commented May 22, 2025

The Text To Speech engine will say certain swear words and slurs if you replace certain characters with an asterisk.

For example, let's say Apple is a banned swear word.

Typing A**** or even A*ple will cause the TTS engine to say Apple in full.

The linked video shows this bug in action, showcasing every example I was able to find. There are likely more I simply haven't discovered yet. This was recorded on the official scratch website.

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Warning: Contains Rude Language and Racial Slurs
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4201913c-545e-4e8e-a3ae-0bad4685101a

Here's a link to the sprite seen in the video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11No4L-vgiJeW-KGTczVB41WxJrSYGxil/view?usp=sharing

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(I'm new to github. If this is the wrong scratchfoundation repo to send this in, please tell me)

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