Tommy says... » google http://bla.nointrigue.com/blog my random thoughts Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:54:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 New internationalism http://bla.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/11/20/new-internationalism/ http://bla.nointrigue.com/blog/2008/11/20/new-internationalism/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:19:51 +0000 Tommy Chen http://bla.nointrigue.com/blog/?p=128 Yesterday, London’s Telegraph carried a piece about how iPhone’s new voice-recognising Googling tool fails to recognise British accents. Then today, its antipodean and tabloidal namesake tells us that the iPhone gets confused by Australian accents.

I bet the same thing is happening across the world: every paper puts a local spin on what is really the same story (“iPhone’s new voice-recognising Googling tool is crap”). Just imagine it:

“US English accent confuses iPhone” — the Seattle Bugle.

“Vaticano Latin too much for iPhone – Cardinal warns against playing God” — the Vatican City Bull.

“iPhone refuses to understand Korean – Comrade Kim Jung-il denounces evil imperialist plot.” — the Pyongyang Times.

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