[150768] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: which one a Technical Support or Help Desk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Kell)
Sat Mar 3 12:15:25 2012
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:14:28 -0500
From: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
To: <Faisal@snappydsl.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4F524B47.4070708@snappydsl.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/3/2012 11:48 AM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote:
> Touche....!
>
> Being in South Florida, (heavy Latin & Spanish accents) and having
> customers in Alabama, Tennessee (Heavy Southern accents) etc, we have
> had to "Tune" our ears as well as our Accents, including carefully
> choosing our words...
Yes, it goes both ways :) It would be very interesting to get some
statistics/reports out of Apple's Siri project as to the "hardest cases".
My cousin recently got an iPhone with Siri. She has a much worse drawl
than mine :) She told it to "Call Jeff", and Siri says "I see no J F in
your contacts". (Imagine a very heavily drawled "Jeff" more like
"Jaaay-Yufff", decidedly two syllables there...)
She's had mixed results with Siri :) It may be beneficial speech
therapy for her, but hard to change decades of Southern :)
Jeff
