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Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail

Louise Littlejohn said she was shocked and then laughed when she received the error strewn voicemail transcription.

An expert has told the BBC the AI system may have struggled in part because of the caller's Scottish accent, but far more likely factors were the background noise at the garage and the fact he was reading off a script. Many people in Scotland will remember a sketch from the BBC comedy show Burnistoun, when two Scottish men get trapped after the voice-activated lift can't understand their accents. A few weeks ago, the tech giant said it was working to fix its speech-to-text tool after some social media users found that when they spoke the word "racist" into their iPhones it typed it out as "Trump".

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