People with regional accents are changing the way they talk so Alexa and Siri can understand

Britons with regional accents are having to change the way they talk so they can use voice recognition devices such as Alexa. A study found those fed up with repeating requests to devices – including Google Home, Amazon's Alexa, and Siri on the iPhone – have to use a more'standard' form of English instead. Some 79 per cent of those with regional accents regularly alter the way they speak just to be understood by their devices, according to the poll by the Life Science Centre museum in Newcastle upon Tyne. A study found those fed up with repeating requests to devices – including Google Home, Amazon's Alexa (pictured), and Siri on the iPhone – have to use a more'standard' form of English instead. Of the 444 visitors who completed the survey, 33 per cent said they changed the way they spoke'a lot', while 48 per cent expressed concern that use of voice recognition could'stamp out' regional accents.