Technology correspondent
providerA Dunfermline woman talked about her shock after she made Apple Voice to Text by accidentally a sign of sex – and a clear insult – in a message left by a garage.
Luiz Littlgon, 66, received an audio message on Wednesday from the Land Rover Land Rover in Motler to invite her to an event.
She was transformed by AII’s AII service into a text message – to surprise her – I asked whether she was “able to have sex” before she called her a “piece of ****”.
Mrs. Little John BBC News told me: “Initially, I was shocked – surprising – but then I thought this was very funny. The text was completely inappropriate.
“The garage tries to sell cars, and instead of leaving humiliating messages without realizing them. It is not their mistake at all.”
Apple and garage rejected both.
One of the PBC experts told the artificial intelligence system perhaps partially struggled because of the Scottish caller’s dialect, but most likely factors are the background noise in the garage and the fact that he was reading a text.
providerLittle Little said that she initially believed that the invitation was a fraud, but then realized that the associated number was from the Olawil region.
She had bought a car of the same garage a few years ago.
The British Broadcasting Corporation listened to the voice left by the garage worker and confirmed that it was a traditional commercial invitation.
The copies are very mixed that are difficult to decipher, as there was a mistake, but the reference to “sex” may actually be when the “sixth” caller mentioned in March.
The British Broadcasting Corporation removed the name of the garage employee:
“Hello Little John, it’s here from Lokers Land Rover in Lanarkshire. I hope you are fine. Just one call to see if you have received your invitation to our new, unhealthy car that we have between the sixth and tenth of March.
“Just an early call to see if this is something you were looking for, and to know if we can confirm an appointment opening that will be suitable for yourself. If this is something you will care about, do not hesitate to contact me on ____, ask about myself ____.
What is wrong?
On Apple, details of that How to copy the audio mail for them It is limited to the English -language audio messages on the iPhone with iOS 10 or later, and the copies “quality recording” depend.
Peter Bell, a professor of speech technology at Edinburgh University, listened to the thesis that left Little John.
He suggested that the matter was “the difficult end of speech engines to the text to deal with it.”
He believes that there are a number of factors that can lead to copying Rug:
- The truth of the matter is above the phone, and therefore, it is difficult to hear
- There is some background noise in the call
- The way the garage worker speaks, such as that he reads a ready scenario instead of speaking in a natural way
“All these factors contribute to the system badly,” he added. “The biggest question is the reason why this type of content is removed.
“If you produce a system of speech to the text that the audience uses, you will think you have guarantees for this type of things.”
Did a Scottish accent made a difference?
Burnistoun/bbcMany people in Scotland will remember a drawing of the BBC Comedy Show Burnistoun, when two Scottish men besiege after the elevator who has been activated with their accents cannot.
It has hundreds of millions of views online, and used it in the feeling of some Scots about sound technology.
In 2016, the Scots were asked to work with sound recognition technology in an attempt to help mobile phones Better breaking the tone.
For Professor Bell, the Scottish accent may have an effect here along with all other factors, but – with perfect audio conditions – technology with Scottish accent will face “something of the past”.
However, this is not the first time that Apple speech tools recently reached the main headlines for wrong reasons.
A few weeks ago, The technology giant said it is working on reform The speech tool to the text after some social media users found that when they speak the word “racist” in their iPhone, it wrote it as “Trump”.
Apples also Insteractive intelligence summaries were suspended About news headlines after displaying wrong notifications to the stories.
