On: How Siri Works

[nihilocrat]

I've always been curious, regarding "speaking with a Southern drawl, with a stuffed-up nose from a bad cold" ... are there non-native English speakers here who have had particular difficulty using speech-to-text because of an accent? Have the British, Irish, Scottish, Australians, Canadians, Jamaicans, or South Africans had trouble because of their dialect?

Speech-to-text sounds like it will be a constantly tough problem. Even humans aren't 100% accurate, or even 99% accurate, depending on the circumstances.

[gbog → nihilocrat]

French accent, my nexus never understand me when i ask for gas station, or the names of my Chinese or French contacts.

[falling → nihilocrat]

Here is a scottish accent demo, seems fairly good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z8K6VMw92U