American singer Barbra Streisand was unhappy with how Apple’s virtual assistant is pronouncing her surname, so she called up Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, and asked him to program Siri to pronounce her name correctly.
“She pronounces my name wrong,” Babs admitted to music show NPR Weekend Edition Saturday. “Streisand with a soft S, like sand on the beach. I’ve been saying this for my whole career. And so what did I do? I called the head of Apple, Tim Cook, and he delightfully agreed to have Siri change the pronunciation of my name, finally, with the next update on Sep. 30.”
The 74-year old singer-filmmaker also said, “So let’s see if that happens because I will be thrilled.”
The topic about Siri came when the show’s host Scott Simon played a naughty game on his iPhone, Daily Mail reported.
“May I ask a question of my iPhone while you’re with us?” she asked Streisand, to which she agreed.
“Siri, who is the only female vocalist who has had hit records for six straight decades?” Simon asked the computer assistant.
“Barbra Streizzzand,” Siri replied in front of Streisand.
Streisand is on a tour for her new album “Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway” with guests such as Alec Baldwin and Anne Hathaway. Gianna Francesca Catolico/rga