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I'm in the UK and I use voice search all the time on my Android. Who wants to type phrases into a keyboard when it soooo much quicker to just say it?

Plus the voice recognition's accuracy is absolutely stunning for me; even in a crowded bar.

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Well, I'm Scottish and I don't have a particularly strong accent (at least by the standard of Scottish accents) and my accent appears to be beyond any kind of voice technology (Apple or Android).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAz_UvnUeuU [NSFWOS]

Not checking the link since I'm at work, but is that .. the Burnistoun lift sketch?

Of course! :-)

Captures both the failure of the technology and the resulting anger!

That's a sketch, but this is real (a funny classic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmWRhhvf60Y

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