Article 6VHEG Apple to fix iPhone dictation bug that replaces word ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’

Apple to fix iPhone dictation bug that replaces word ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’

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Joanna Partridge
from Technology | The Guardian on (#6VHEG)

Tech company blames phonetic overlap' for problem where US president's name appears

Apple has promised to fix a bug in its iPhone automatic dictation tool after some users reported it had suggested to them Trump" when they said the word racist".

The glitch was first highlighted in a viral post on TikTok, when the speech-to-text tool sometimes briefly flashed up the word Trump" when they said racist", and was later repeated by others on social media.

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