{"id":10973,"date":"2011-10-31T03:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T03:10:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-31T03:10:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T03:10:32","slug":"Singlish-speaking-SingTel-rivals-Apple-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=10973","title":{"rendered":"Singlish speaking SingTel rivals Apple’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Singapore’s SingTel has developed an application to rival the voice-activated Siri on the iPhone 4S that is sure to go down well in the island state — because it can understand “Singlish”.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Apple unveiled its latest handset earlier this month most of the talk was about Siri, which can give directions or even advice to users simply by asking a question into the speaker.<\/p>\n

However, since the new phone went on sale there have been numerous reports of Siri either responding with a completely irrelevant answer or simply saying it does not understand.<\/p>\n

YouTube videos of Siri misinterpreting the heavily accented words of iPhone 4S users in Japan — the first Asian country to get the device on October 14 — have been widely circulated on the Internet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

iPhone 4S Siri does not understand the Japanese English and reacts in a very funny manner when a users tries to use it. LOL!<\/strong>
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