Barbra Streisand was reported to have called Apple CEO to get Siri fixed as she did not like how her name was pronounced, CNN reports.
Barbra Streisand wants Apple’s digital assistant pronounce her surname exactly how she likes it.
In an interview about her upcoming memoir, “My Name is Barbra,” the two-time Oscar-winner told the BBC that she was fed up with Siri getting her name wrong.
“My name isn’t spelled with a ‘Z’,” she argued. “It’s Strei-sand, like sand on the beach. How simple can you get?”
In a move most of us could only dream of, the now 81-year-old called up Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, to complain, she told the UK media company in an interview published Monday.
“And Tim Cook was so lovely. He had Siri change the pronunciation… I guess that’s one perk of fame!” she said, according to the BBC.
Streisand’s autobiography, which hits the shelves Tuesday, became a No. 1 bestseller earlier this year when it became available for pre-order.
The memoir spans the EGOT winner’s 60 years in entertainment and beyond, starting with her struggles and early life in Brooklyn to her “first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs,” which were the start of her “string of successes,” according to publisher Penguin Random House.
“The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming,” it said on its website.