Nicole Kirstie Smith

She & Him

parislemon:

Peter Kafka’s “Occam’s Razor” thought as to why the Siri voice is female and not male: because it would remind people too much of HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Cute. But wrong.

Actually, the voice varies from country to country. The UK version, for example, uses a man’s voice. I know this because I’m in England and got a demo of the feature here.

Also awesome: Siri didn’t work for me when UK English was turned on. When I switched to US English, it worked perfectly. It understands accents. 

I wonder how this works if you have an Americanised Australian accent? Do I chose the Aussie option and try to remember to do soft a’s and r’s, or do I chose the American version and speak with hard a’s and r’s like I have to do whenever I speak to auto voice systems or travel agents?

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   Scary. parislemon on Siri.

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    keynote’s live coverage yesterday,...pretty impressive.

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    I wonder how this works if you have an Americanised Australian accent? Do I chose

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    Reminds me of one of Google’s now-explicit rationales for GOOG-411. From this new

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    very smart. BMW’s German customers demanded a product recall when they debuted GPS navigation directions spoken in a...

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31. seldo said: If Siri understands accents, then me and my unusual half-British, half-American accent are fucked.
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