Can I change how Siri pronounces my name?

Siri pronounces my last name incorrectly. I know it shouldn't be a huge issue, but this extends to all of my family members as well as a few friends that also have names mangled by Siri. All efforts to correct Siri's pronunciation have been in vain. Is there any way to do this?

I was just looking this up. Same issue. I laughed when I first heard Siri mispronoucing my last name and the name of every family member in my contact list. And some of my business contacts too. But after a few days of that it gets old, and I started looking for a way to fix it. There is a way to add a phonetic pronounciation of a name in the Contact list (open a contact, hit Edit, then scroll all the way down to Add Field), but apparently it's only a visual reference for you when you're looking at the contact's name. Siri does not use it.
I found this tip -- http://www.tipb.com/2011/10/17/daily-tip-siri-correctly-pronounce/ -- and tried it, but it doesn't work. I changed the phonetic pronounciation of my family members, but Siri still pronounces it the old (incorrect) way. I thought that maybe it takes a while for Siri to update the pronounciation... but I waited and still no-go.
Siri is still a beta product, and I've got to think that Apple is aware of this issue. There are millions of iPhone users who are now listening to names being mispronounced all day long. Seems like a fix might involve a setting that instructs Siri to use the phonetic pronounciation when pulling up a name.

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