The other day, Google launched it’s voice activated search function for the iPhone – whoop, whoop, no more adventures in touchscreen QWERTY madness. The program, allows users to search Google for cinema times, bring up pictures, information, convert currency and measurements simply by talking to it.
Sadly, for us Brits and our tendency to pull the diphthongs and vowel sounds of the English language into glorious new forms, the application is having a hard time working out what we are saying. Hardly surprising really, when you consider just how many very different regional accents we have packed into this tiny little island.
According to The Telegraph, when prompted to search for “iPhone” in a Kentish accent the program returned with “my sister” and “Einstein”. Similarly, a Surrey user was offered “myspace” as well as “Einstein” for the same search. Ah well, looks like it’s the iPhone’s much maligned QWERTY for British folks, at least for the foreseeable future.
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