On 3/3/2012 11:48 AM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: > Touche....! > > Being in South Florida, (heavy Latin & Spanish accents) and having > customers in Alabama, Tennessee (Heavy Southern accents) etc, we have > had to "Tune" our ears as well as our Accents, including carefully > choosing our words...
Yes, it goes both ways :) It would be very interesting to get some statistics/reports out of Apple's Siri project as to the "hardest cases". My cousin recently got an iPhone with Siri. She has a much worse drawl than mine :) She told it to "Call Jeff", and Siri says "I see no J F in your contacts". (Imagine a very heavily drawled "Jeff" more like "Jaaay-Yufff", decidedly two syllables there...) She's had mixed results with Siri :) It may be beneficial speech therapy for her, but hard to change decades of Southern :) Jeff