{"id":247118,"date":"2025-02-26T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/apple-fixing-bug-in-iphone-speech-to-text-glitch-which-interprets-racist-as-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T10:19:55","slug":"apple-fixing-bug-in-iphone-speech-to-text-glitch-which-interprets-racist-as-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/apple-fixing-bug-in-iphone-speech-to-text-glitch-which-interprets-racist-as-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple fixing bug in iPhone speech-to-text glitch which interprets ‘racist’ as ‘Trump’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Apple says it is repairing a glitch with its speech-to-text feature on iPhones which interprets the word “racist” as “Trump” before autocorrecting itself.<\/p>\n

The US technology giant<\/a><\/strong> said it is working on fixing the bug which has triggered outrage from Trump<\/a><\/strong> supporters and conservative commentators, including Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.<\/p>\n

iPhone<\/a><\/strong> users have been posting videos on social media testing out the glitch.<\/p>\n

Sky News’ US partner NBC News was able to replicate the same trend on multiple iPhone devices. However, not all tests resulted in the glitch.<\/p>\n

When activating its voice dictation feature and saying the word “racist” the text result would briefly display “Trump” before being replaced with “racist”.<\/p>\n

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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 said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Apple explained the speech recognition models powering the feature may first display words with some phonetic overlap.<\/p>\n

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Then further analysis enables it to land on the actual word that the user intended to say.<\/p>\n

The tech company said the bug has been incorrectly suggesting “Trump” in response to several words that include an “r” consonant.<\/p>\n

More from Sky News:
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Trump posts bizarre video of Gaza vision<\/a>
Meta attacked over end-to-end encryption<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The White House has not yet responded to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time a major technology company has been accused of political bias in recent months.<\/p>\n

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Meta<\/a><\/strong> has faced criticism after users on its social platforms claimed they have been made to automatically follow pages for Donald Trump and his vice president JD Vance<\/a><\/strong>. Meta explained this is usual practice<\/a><\/strong> during presidential transitions, with the accounts linked to the US offices rather than the individuals.<\/p>\n

Meta also accepted there was an issue with Instagram<\/a><\/strong> search results not appearing correctly when people searched certain hashtags, including #democrat.<\/p>\n

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