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Re:Siri in practice by Lewisham on Saturday October 15, 2011 @02:00PM (#3115352)
Do you know if you can set the British English of Siri independent of the phone language? As a Brit in the US, my Android phone doesn't understand anything I say unless I say it in a so-bad-its-almost-xenophobic American accent. Same with my car.

YouTube videos indicate that Siri does understand British accents, but if I have to set the phone language to full on British, that would be a bit annoying (sadly, it is now tires, color, favorite and temperatures in Farenheit for me).

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Re:Siri in practice by mechanical_fish on Saturday October 15, 2011 @09:44PM (#3116287)
a so-bad-its-almost-xenophobic American accent

I sense a new genre of Youtube videos, just waiting to be born.

If the videos use paired examples ("just listen as the Londoner and the New Yorker swap phones") maybe they'll be inoffensive enough that one dares to show them in polite company. Probably not, though. ;)

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Re:Siri in practice by nirvana on Saturday October 15, 2011 @02:41PM (#3115435)
Yes. The Siri Settings screen has a language choice that is Siri specific. I'm pretty certain that Siri, like most open ended recognition systems has separate recognizers for various accents, and of course, languages. (Though Apple has apparently set Siri's responding voice using the same control, they probably should have made them separate settings.)

http://techbend.com/2011/10/11/iphone-4s-siri-look-like-scre...

You can also turn off voice feedback if the British Male voice annoys you as well.

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Re:Siri in practice by X-Istence on Saturday October 15, 2011 @03:00PM (#3115481)
I really like the Australian accent, but as soon as I turn that on Siri will no longer find any businesses that are close to me since that is only supported if set to US English.
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Re:Siri in practice by Lewisham on Saturday October 15, 2011 @04:19PM (#3115690)
Yes, I just popped down to the store to try this out. It's a bizarre limitation... the phone knows where it is, why should it matter if I want to speak to it in Australian/British English/Spanish?
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