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iPhone 4S Siri is RACIST
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It won't recognize the names of some of my hispanic friends
SIRIously though, they should fix this asap.
Anyone Else?
JK about the racist thing, but it really surprises me that Apple
could've forgotten about this. Not just Hispanic names....but
Portuguese ones as well...Not everyone is named John or Steve yanno
This reminds me of a time when I was playing a Japanese arcade game that took a picture of you, but could only show light-skinned people. If a dark-skinned person took a picture, it would show totally black as if it couldn't recognize the person. It's like the camera wasn't calibrated to recognize dark-skinned people. lol
Siri/Apple/Nuance had to focus on just a few languages at first - English, French, and German. It's no wonder that it cannot process hispanic names.
I had to change my own name on the phone. Doesn't surprise me, very few people can actually say my name right, didn't expect Siri to.
Siri mangles my name too. I am sure some of my Indian friends would be in the same boat.
I'm gonna change mine to "dabitch" -
Call dabitch -
tx dabitch -
That's some funny stuff!
Wow. Where to begin? First, you can't have it both ways. Either the OP is tossing around the "race card" or he's just kidding. You're contradicting yourself in the second sentence.
And how's this for a little "tossing around the accusation of racism"? The last sentence of your post IS racist. You don't like that? Sorry about your luck. Maybe you can go cry to one of the 42 Republicans that are running for your (obvious) parties nomination. After all, Perry's got a GREAT track record on race (I'd love to hear your take on the hunting ranch). I bet that would be a good one.
Oh, and maybe YOU should go look up the definition of socialism, while we're at it. You like police protection? The fire department? How about when you get to Medicare and Social Security age? Hmm? If you don't like socialism, then you should renounce ALL of these things right now. Your house catches fire? The fire department should tell you, sorry pal, you don't like socialism.
God, the amount of complete stupidity in this country right now is completely mind-boggling.
Yikes, it's people like you that are rotting our country from within. If you dislike democracy and capitalism go to Venezuela. Hugo Chavez will accept you with open arms as long as you never criticize his dictatorship and know your place.
Proposing is a good start, or just knock her up
Yeah gets most of ours right, but my daughter's name, Juanita, has it stumped most of the time
LMAO...that's hilarious. This should be on the homepage of every liberal in congress. If you disagree with them that's all they say over and over "You're racist!".
No need to change their names
You could've just added a relationship to your contact.
Either tell Siri "Jane Smith is my wife"
or go to your contact info, edit, then scroll down and you can add a field for spouse, brother, mother-in-law, etc etc
You could've just added a relationship to your contact.
Either tell Siri "Jane Smith is my wife"
or go to your contact info, edit, then scroll down and you can add a field for spouse, brother, mother-in-law, etc etc
Wow, this has to be the most ignorant thing I've heard in a WHILE
Sir, please step aside and let the internet police do their jobs.
That's the point. Apple has chosen Siri as it's surrogate brain washing partner. So, don't worry iPhone 4S users brains will atrophy. Then it will be even easier to convince the rest of the masses that thinking is a thing of the past. As Apple captures your facial features, tracks your movements, and records your voice interacting with Siri, the next knock on your door may not be so friendly.
You know what they say, be careful what you wish for.
Ok. I figured it out.. you have to add a relationship and then press on it and it will pull up a bunch of fields to change it. I didn't have those options if I just picked "Add a Field".
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I have added a custom field under my info where i can say:
"call boyfriend"
or
"text boyfriend"
and it'll do it... lol
"call boyfriend"
or
"text boyfriend"
and it'll do it... lol
You do realize Kentucky's correct though? A pure capitalistic society wouldn't have government programs or services like the ones he listed. Please don't try to label yourself as a better citizen than anyone else, you don't have that right. We're all entitled to our own opinions in this country and you likening him to an authoritarian douche simply correlates your own ignorant views.
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Okay but seriously, as an English teacher in Germany I have a lot of customers with German names so it's difficult when dictating my calendar.
English is my main language but even though Siri is compatible with German when I have the English language version switched on I can't dictate German names. Just try getting Siri to recognise names like Krüger or Schirner without it writing something completely different in English!
Same goes with German place names. I live in a place called Halle, something Siri finds very difficult to recognise.
Okay but seriously, as an English teacher in Germany I have a lot of customers with German names so it's difficult when dictating my calendar.
English is my main language but even though Siri is compatible with German when I have the English language version switched on I can't dictate German names. Just try getting Siri to recognise names like Krüger or Schirner without it writing something completely different in English!
Same goes with German place names. I live in a place called Halle, something Siri finds very difficult to recognise.
You can tell siri "jane smith is my wife", but it doesn't matter because it doesn't remember
