I can’t believe we don’t have good voice recognition software yet. Those accents trip up the software, perhaps one should train the device first. I have been waiting for the day when you can just issue commands to your computer or other device (oven, car, TV, phone). Some of that exists already, I know, but it’s very rudimentary.

iPhone sex: Google application baffled by British accents from PhysOrg.com

A new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, a newspaper report and users said Wednesday.

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