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Actress Barbra Streisand probably doesn't need any introduction, considering how many movies she's starred in. You may know her from the films "The Godfather," "The Godfather," and "The Godfathers." However, as has been shown in the past, while the world knows this actress well, the artificial assistant Applu Siri no, then miniat least in terms of the pronunciation of her name. The actress took matters into her own hands and Siri She learned her name in a rather original way. 

The actress is currently publishing her memoir, "My Name is Barbra," and as part of that, she's been visiting various media outlets to talk about it. And it's thanks to these visits that people occasionally learn about funny incidents that Barbra has experienced and that she talks about in her book. One of them revolves around Siri, in which the actress discovered that her name was truncated and used a Z instead of the letter S. However, she was not going to accept this and therefore decided to take the matter into her own hands and change her name. Siri And since she is an actress who has been in American show business for a very long time and has contacts with many people, her boss was also in her phone book. Applu Tim CookSo she called him and asked him to Apple the pronunciation of her name in Siri corrected. And the result? By the end of the week in which she made the request, she was Siri able to pronounce her name correctly. So being famous and influential clearly pays off on fronts where you probably wouldn't expect it. 

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