The new Streisand Effect: Barbra calls Tim Cook to change Siri’s pronunciation

Ars Technica
By Megan GeussAug 22, 2016, 1:25 pm778 pts
Enlarge Those of us with difficult last names are accustomed to quietly bearing the indignities of constant mispronunciation, especially from digital assistant programs like Apple's Siri. My last name (Geuss) is pronounced "Gice," but that pronunciation is so far from being phonetically logical in English that…

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