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Google iPhone Voice Search App Has Problems With British Accents

Posted by Brian Leahy - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:01 PM

Google's recently released voice search application for the iPhone apparently has some issues with the Queen's English. British users are reporting problems with getting the application to understand their requests.

"Awesome job google. only problem is every time I say the word 'fish' it registers as sex,'' wrote one user.

Google's website features a demo video with users that have Irish, Chinese, and English accents using the program with no issues.

Hopefully, as Google collects more voice data it'll get better at recognizing other accents.

Have you had any problems with the application?

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Comment(s)

Posted by Crankr - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:12 PM

Sean Connery is gonna be so pissed

Posted by CustosIntusSilentium - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:12 PM

Yeah, when I tried searching my name it registered as "dick"

Posted by pogmothone - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 7:33 PM

sean sonnery is scotish not english F.Y.I.
and that is what you get you dirty english people. this is what you get for telling me to go eat a hamburger when you try and trash talk on live.

Posted by AzEL - Thursday, November 20, 2008 7:59 AM

@ pogmothone
there is a reason people trash talk to you on live. its because your a rasist d-bag.

and sean connery is british, so yer, he is going to be really pissed.

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