A new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding British accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries, a newspaper report and users said Wednesday.

The free application, which allows iPhone owners to use the Google search engine with their voice, mistook the word `iPhone` variously for `sex,` `Einstein` and `kitchen sink,` said the Daily Telegraph.

Comments left by users on the application`s website seemed to confirm the problem. `Awesome job google. only problem is every time I say the word `fish` it registers as `sex`,` wrote one, identified as Kevin.

A video demonstration of the Google Mobile App on the online giant`s website shows an American engineer successfully asking for pictures of the Golden Gate as well as cinema timetables and temperature conversions.

The website also includes a link to a video showing people with Irish, British and Chinese accents asking for relatively complicated searches, with apparent success.

But British iPhone owners had less luck when speaking the word `iPhone` into the application -- a Scottish user was offered a porn website after it mistook his search for `sex,` the Telegraph reported.

A user from Surrey, south of London, had his request mistaken for `myspace` and `Einstein` was another option offered for `iPhone` spoken with a Kent accent, it said.

The only British accent which correctly understood the request was for a user from Yorkshire, northern England, although he was also offered `bonfire.`

A Welsh accent gave the suggestions `gorillas` and `kitchen sink.`

`I`ve got a traditional Kentish accent and the thing kept on spitting back ridiculous things,` said Roger Ellinson, 26, from Maidstone in Kent, southeastern England.

`I asked it to find my nearest pizza take away and it came back with something about volcanoes,` he added.

`I asked it to find my nearest pub and it gave me a link to some kind of weird dating website,` said Ellinson. `I`ll have to try to put on my best American accent to get it to work.`

On its website, Google points out that the new voice search system `is currently available only in U.S. English.`

One British user, Edward Parsons, says on the site`s comments board: `This is fantastic, except for the North American accent bias.

`It actually works pretty well, but I have to disguise my (North London) accent with a terrible folksy Texan tourist voice to get results. I can see this is going to be the source of much amusement and confusion.`