iPhone doesnt get British accent
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21 Nov 2008, 16:02
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This is a translation of an article I read yesterday in a Dutch newspaper:
Apparantly, the new program of the iPhone that should recognise voice commands, is not working correctly. The program should be able to google by given the right commands.
However, people with British accent and then especially a Scottish and Welsh accent, have major problems.
When spoken to the program in a Scottish accent issuing to search for "iPhone" the prog returns query's as : "Einstein", "sex" and "home alone".
With a Welsh accent it's even worse. According to the article it returns with query's for pineapple and kitchenblocks..lmfao.
Google responded saying the prog is only 100% perfect for people that speak American-English.
Apparantly, the new program of the iPhone that should recognise voice commands, is not working correctly. The program should be able to google by given the right commands.
However, people with British accent and then especially a Scottish and Welsh accent, have major problems.
When spoken to the program in a Scottish accent issuing to search for "iPhone" the prog returns query's as : "Einstein", "sex" and "home alone".
With a Welsh accent it's even worse. According to the article it returns with query's for pineapple and kitchenblocks..lmfao.
Google responded saying the prog is only 100% perfect for people that speak American-English.
Quoting the google app on my iPhone:
"Voice Search only works in English, and works best for North American English accents."
Or did they mean North USA ?
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Heh. Right.
cause I need to choose new phone, but on the other hand I'd rather take nokia n95 8[
iPhone if you want a sweet gadget with lots of cool tools. The camera isn't really good, but good enough for blogging and such.
Both have GPS, 3G/EDGE, but N95 is more of a phone/PDA than the iPhone, which is pretty much an expanded iPod Touch with some sweet additional PDA functions. Which ofcourse is nice, but you gotta like it.
Also you need to like the touch screen. If you don't like cleaning the screen, or just want physical buttons, you could also try the later HTC phones.
Internet on iPhone just rules. :-) The Safari browser is super correct in displaying CSS as close as possible for mobile.
Also the iPhone is really big compared to most phones, which is a reason for some people to leave it for the N95.
That's my view. :-)
And what about this touch screen? Is it long-life gadget? Because I've heard that it breaks down after a short period of time.
If you get it ensured, in most countries, you can get it replaced within 4 hours and you could then just synchronize it to your iTunes and you would still have all your contacts, notes, songs, video's, anything. N95 also offers nice synchronization, but not the way Apple did it with iPhone.
File management on iPhone is worse though, in my opinion, you can only manage files through SSH and not via your USB cable. At least, not usually. Even for SSH it's tricky, because you would have to use a hacked firmware to run illegal software. When your iPhone breaks, and the firmware isn't restored to the one provided by Apple, you lose warranty, they won't help anyone with different firmware than their own, obviously. N95 can run unsigned programs (read: similar to illegal software, but not much illegal) with some trouble on the client-side. But when you find out how this works in practice, it all goes fine. I don't think Nokia makes a problem of this.
I really appreciate your help btw.
Having said that, I've looked at a lot of stuff on the N95, but I forgot to listen to music. D'oh!
To thank you for the effort: http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=KBDqKYQhJBA
I know you won't understand half of the words but this beat is so sweeeet :D
The main problem is overheating, which can be fixed but you need to send ur phone for repair. The 8GB has less problems, the only big problem is that the memory gets corrupted pretty fast and your phone will be slow, but a format does the job here.
And the camera on the n95 isn't that special, it says 5 mp, but mega pixels aint all. The picture you can take with it look like a cheap 3.2 mp camera.
I work at a repair center and just don't buy the normal N95! If you really want buy the 8GB.
And I don't know much about the iPhone, only that the newest firmware is pretty fine and apple is ripping you off big time.
N73 = ok
N76 = ok
N85 = fail
N95 = fail
N95 8gb = fine
N96 = epic fail
You might take a look at the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, it's a realy nice phone. It's fabricated by HTC and just wears the SE label.
never had to repair a n81 so I didn't put it on my list. I mostly repair N95 + N95 8gb.