It’s limited to short clips, and the feature is nearly hidden on Wimbledon’s site-it requires you to click on a video, then click on tiny headphones in the corner, then choose “AI Commentary” mode. Nothing about the technology feels ready for prime time, and it seems that Wimbledon and IBM know it. They are the result of a partnership between the All England Club and its longtime corporate sponsor IBM, which has been part of Wimbledon for so long that it introduced the “Data Entry Keypad” back when John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova were still playing. These AI commentators provide “play-by-play narration” for highlight reels published online.
Another version, a “male” voice, sounds like your uncle from Queens trying to do a Hugh Grant impression. This is a commentary chatbot, introduced with considerable fanfare at the All England Club this year. 1 court in the first round.” Fręch is mispronounced, as is Tunisia, and the word renowned is used oddly dispassionately, as if it were being repeated for a competitor at a spelling bee. I’m watching match highlights between Ons Jabeur and Magdalena Fręch on the tournament’s website when a voice says, “Jabeur, from Tunisia, will play Fręch, from Poland, on the renowned No.
The Wimbledon announcer sounds a little like Helen Mirren if she’d just been hit with a polo mallet.
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