United Kingdom, Feb. 27 -- Apple's AI tool transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'.

The tech behemoth says it is working to fix an issue that it suggests comes from its Dictation service being unable to distinguish between words that have an 'r' in them.

Videos posted online show people speaking the word 'racist' into the Dictation tool. It is sometimes transcribed correctly but on other occasions it turns into 'Trump', before being quickly corrected to the right word.

An Apple spokesperson said: "We are aware of an issue with the speech recognition model that powers Dictation and we are rolling out a fix today."

However, an expert in speech recognition argued that Apple's explanation is "just not plausible".

Peter Bell, professor o...