But while the voices have improved at some point (prior even than tiger) they dumbed down the parser: With the old Apple speech parser this sentence would be spoken correctly: "Did you read the book I read?" pronouncing the first rEEd and the second red; Now there parser has no sense of tense. There are other examples of encroaching retardation as well but I just got informed that the coffee shop I'm in is closing so, well, I guess I better just end here.