Y'all have a Texas accent? Siri (and the world) might be slowly killing it
by Tom Dart in Houston from Technology | The Guardian on (#13H2Y)
Voice recognition tools such as Apple's Siri still struggle to understand regional quirks and accents, and users are adapting the way they speak to compensate
It was a simple enough question, at least in this part of the world.
"How can we mosey on down to the rodeo?" my friend Ben Crook drawled, sat in a rocking chair on his front porch, a can of Lone Star beer in his left hand on a humid night in Houston.
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