{"id":210411,"date":"2026-05-07T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/arlington-high-school-reverses-course-on-plan-to-use-ai-to-pronounce-student-names-during-graduation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:50:09","slug":"arlington-high-school-reverses-course-on-plan-to-use-ai-to-pronounce-student-names-during-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/arlington-high-school-reverses-course-on-plan-to-use-ai-to-pronounce-student-names-during-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington high school reverses course on plan to use AI to pronounce student names during graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/arlington\/2026\/05\/arlington-high-school-reverses-course-on-plan-to-use-ai-to-pronounce-student-names-during-graduation\/\">Arlington high school reverses course on plan to use AI to pronounce student names during graduation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/arlington\/2026\/05\/arlington-high-school-reverses-course-on-plan-to-use-ai-to-pronounce-student-names-during-graduation\/\">https:\/\/wtop.com\/arlington\/2026\/05\/arlington-high-school-reverses-course-on-plan-to-use-ai-to-pronounce-student-names-during-graduation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 14:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"wtop.com\">wtop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Washington-Liberty High School in Northern Virginia abandoned plans to use an AI program named Tassel to help pronounce student names correctly during graduation, following student feedback.<\/li>\n<li>The initial plan intended to use the AI to prevent frequent mispronunciations of names, as explained by Principal Alexander Duncan III.<\/li>\n<li>The school district, Arlington Public Schools, announced the change in a statement by spokeswoman Christina Arpante, noting students preferred their names be read by a familiar teacher&#8217;s voice.<\/li>\n<li>Parents and students expressed concerns that using an AI for pronouncing names during a significant ceremony like graduation would make the event seem impersonal and standardized instead of authentic and personalized.<\/li>\n<li>Fairfax County Public Schools and Prince William County Public Schools are not considering similar AI software for reading student names during graduation ceremonies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arlington high school reverses course on plan to use AI to pronounce student names during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wtop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/graduates.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210413,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210411\/revisions\/210413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}