Barbara Streisand calls Tim Cook to have Siri improve her name pronunciation

Apple's personal assistant for mobile devices, Siri, hit the market with the launch of the iPhone 4s. Several years after having improved a lot in addition to having become a more useful assistant than in his early days, Apple has finally decided to launch Siri on OS X. In a little more than a month, Siri will arrive on Macs with macOS Sierra. Siri is available in many languages ​​and, of course, not all of them offer a very adequate pronunciation. For example, we can talk about the singer Barbara Streisand, whose last name has been a headache for Siri when it comes to pronouncing it.

The singer, neither short nor lazy, has contacted Tim Cook directly to try to solve the problem. According to the singer, the second s is deaf and not a voiced s as Siri actually pronounces it. We do not know how long the singer has been hearing her name mispronounced through Siri, but according to what she says as soon as she realized it, she contacted Tim who assured him that by September 30 this little problem pronunciation would be solved.

If you are iPhone users, you probably know that Siri requires an internet connection to work since the assistant is actually on Apple's servers, where the changes are made by adding improvements or eliminating functional and pronunciation problems, as we have seen from the incident related to Barbara Streisand. The strange thing of all is that that date does not coincide with the presentation of the iPhone 7, scheduled for September 7 and that at the end in theory the final version of iOS should be launched as the guys from Cupertino are used to.