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Why is Apple Maps saying “sawjootee” instead of “south”?

by furrowedbrow on 9/30/21, 11:27 PM with 2 comments

As in, “turn left onto sawjootee-west 4th street” instead of “turn left onto southwest 4th street”. Anyone else experiencing this?

  • by yesenadam on 10/4/21, 12:22 PM

    Quite a few google results reporting same thing, such as this discussion

    https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1479443

  • by kazinator on 10/1/21, 10:43 PM

    Could it just be reading an underlying misspelling in the data, as in "soujtwest"? A combination of transposing TH as HT due to timing disruption between the left and right hand, while mistyping the H as the adjacent J.

    There are plausible pronunciation attempts for "soujt" that a listener might phonetically transcribe as "sawjootee".

  • by arthurcolle on 9/30/21, 11:39 PM

    They are way too busy deprecating OS features to focus on actually adding/enhancing functionality. Maybe you are 'listening to the app wrong' ?