I can't wait to see how it copes with British accents. Not just English vs Scottish etc - but the hundreds of variations.

I grew up in the East Midlands and now live in Leeds, 70 miles north. The difference in accents is night and day (although no-one in the UK knows what a Nottingham accent is). There's even a significant difference between a Leeds accent and the next city, Bradford (about 5 miles away).

I really hope Siri has some sort of unobtrusive training built in...

I'm from Scotland so, as you can imagine, we're somewhat less enthusiastic about this kind of technology—it never really works for us.

(see Burnistoun YouTube video linked below)

Ha! It's easy to forget that HN comments aren't in time order.

Here's the post with the link:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102084