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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by jamiek88 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:24PM (#25283189)
Me too. As a Brit in USA, especially as a scouser, I have to do a comedy American accent to work Siri et al.

Used to be the same in the store, tuna sandwich pls. Huh? What? Oh, toona!

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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by crazygringo on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:00PM (#25283950)
Does:

  Settings > Siri > Language > English (United Kingdom)
not fix it for you? And possibly setting

  Settings > Siri > Siri Voice > British
as well?

Apple advertises:

> Since Siri is designed to recognize accents and dialects of the supported countries or regions, Siri’s accuracy rate will be highest for native speakers.

Or is this problem just with American friends' devices?

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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by jamiek88 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:32PM (#25284187)
It does but then you can’t use local maps and points of interest etc.
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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by crazygringo on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:58PM (#25284363)
Wait what do you mean?

My Siri's set to American but when I travel to London local maps and stuff all works fine there?

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Re:Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Sp... by kelnos on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @11:47PM (#25285500)
If that were true then maps will stop working for anyone traveling to another country. I know that's certainly not the case on Android, and I suspect it's not on iOS either.
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