9to5Mac stumbled upon a YouTube video that exposes one of Siri’s weaknesses — people who speak English with a heavy accent. These non-native speakers cause poor Siri to get all confused.
The bewildered Voice Assistant keeps searching for Linda when the speaker wants the weather. And the response he receives when he asks Siri to “read text?” Well, it’s a classic that you’ll have to hear for yourself in the video. [YouTube via 9to5mac]
John
Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 10:57 AMEveryone in the world, except Apple fanboys, knew this was going to be a problem.
Joyi
Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 1:36 PMHahaha, Siri supports American, Pommy and Aussie English. No where does it say chinglish :D
F
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 9:16 AMDon’t be so ignorant, that’s Japanese accent…
gd
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 9:37 PMyeah, but it doesnt matter, no other phone can do this even with the right accent bro..
ed
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 6:54 AMone interesting thing is that he is just saying “what weather for today”
people have to use proper english