London – Apple is fixing an error within the dictated function on some iPhones that briefly suggests the word “Trump” when a word is spoken with a consonant, including “racist.”
The company is responding to the controversy after some iPhone owners posted videos on social networks this week to detail how the failure works.
When users activated the dictation function and said the word “racist”, the word “Trump” appears in the text window before being quickly replaced by the right word, according to several videos published online.
“We are aware of a problem with the voice recognition model that drives the dictation and we are implementing a solution today,” Apple said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The company said that voice recognition models that drive voice to text function could show words with some phonetic overlap.
He also said that other words that have a consonant “R” also erroneously activated the error. Associated Press could not double the problem on Wednesday, a day after it arose.
This week the company announced a Plan to invest more than $ 500 billion and hire 20,000 people in the United States over the next four years, as well as build a new factory in Texas, in the midst of Trump’s threats to impose import tariffs. Separately, Apple’s shareholders He rejected an attempt To press the company to join Trump’s impulse to scrub corporate programs designed to diversify its workforce.
