Ever since shiny little Apple products started including voice commands, I’ve wondered how they’d handle song names in unsupported languages. Would it be as bad as Moviefone’s text to speech bot?

Yes it is. Here’s how the current iPhone reads out the title track to ‘Kaho Na Pyaar Hai (Please Say You’re in Love)’: ‘Now playing kah-ho en-ay-ay pyre hay.’

Kailash Kher is ‘kay-lahsh cur, terry dee-wuh-nee.’ Sukhwinder gets ‘thay-eye-uh thay-eye-uh by suck-wine-dur sing.’ Nusrat largely escapes the phonemic massacre.

But the machine out-pronounces some 2nd gen actors I’ve had the pleasure of listening to.