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Apple fixing bug in iPhone speech-to-text glitch which interprets ‘racist’ as ‘Trump’

By Editorial Board Published February 26, 2025 4 Min Read
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Apple fixing bug in iPhone speech-to-text glitch which interprets ‘racist’ as ‘Trump’

Apple says it’s repairing a glitch with its speech-to-text characteristic on iPhones which interprets the phrase “racist” as “Trump” earlier than autocorrecting itself.

The US know-how large stated it’s engaged on fixing the bug which has triggered outrage from Trump supporters and conservative commentators, together with Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

iPhone customers have been posting movies on social media testing out the glitch.

When activating its voice dictation characteristic and saying the phrase “racist” the textual content outcome would briefly show “Trump” earlier than being changed with “racist”.

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“We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers dictation and we are rolling out a fix today,” a spokesperson for Apple stated in an announcement on Tuesday.

Apple defined the speech recognition fashions powering the characteristic might first show phrases with some phonetic overlap.

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Then additional evaluation permits it to land on the precise phrase that the consumer meant to say.

The tech firm stated the bug has been incorrectly suggesting “Trump” in response to a number of phrases that embrace an “r” consonant.

The White Home has not but responded to a request for remark.

This isn’t the primary time a significant know-how firm has been accused of political bias in current months.

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Meta has confronted criticism after customers on its social platforms claimed they’ve been made to mechanically comply with pages for Donald Trump and his vp JD Vance. Meta defined that is standard follow throughout presidential transitions, with the accounts linked to the US workplaces relatively than the people.

Meta additionally accepted there was a difficulty with Instagram search outcomes not showing appropriately when individuals searched sure hashtags, together with #democrat.

In September, Amazon needed to repair an error when Alexa reportedly declined to remark when requested about Mr Trump, however when requested about rival candidate Kamala Harris it generally gave an in depth listing of causes backing her.

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