Voice assistants suck, but they suck worse if you have an "accent"
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3VPRD)
Research into the shittiness of voice assistants zeroed in on a problem that many people were all-too-aware of: the inability of these devices to recognize "accented" speech ("accented" in quotes because there is no one formally correct English, and the most widely spoken English variants, such as Indian English, fall into this "accented" category). (more")