Apple Tweaks German Speaking Voice for Siri on iPhone, iPad, and HomePod

[cqexbesd]

The thing that gets me is pronouncing geographic names using the pronunciation of the language the iPhone is using and not of the location of the geographic thing. e.g. I have my phone set to English but live in Germany. The pronunciation of street names when using Maps is so bad it's usually unintelligible. The phone can't even say "Strasse". The part that annoys me the most is that, as its found these things on the map, it must know that these things are in Germany and very likely to require German pronunciation.

The same problems must hit Apple employees, at least when they travel so Apple must know...

 

[Delta-NC]

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[SBlue1]

Austria Siri would be like: "Küss die Hand gnä' Frau."

😂

Hat Siri in Österreich einen Akzent? Wäre cool wenn es Wienerisch antworten könnte.
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The thing that gets me is pronouncing geographic names using the pronunciation of the language the iPhone is using and not of the location of the geographic thing. e.g. I have my phone set to English but live in Germany. The pronunciation of street names when using Maps is so bad its usually unintelligible. The phone can't even say "Strasse". The part that annoys me the most is that as its found these things on the map it must know that these things are in Germany and very likely to require German pronunciation.

The same problems must hit Apple employees, at least when they travel...

Yeah. It sucks to ask the German Siri to play the Foo Fighters or to tell me the scores of the Green Bay Packers.

 

[Defthand]

I wonder if it answers like Sgt. Shultz of Hogan’s Heroes... “I know nothingggg.”

 

[cmaier]

I wonder if it answers like Sgt. Shultz of Hogan’s Heroes... “I know nothingggg.”

No you don’t

 

[4tune8chance]

I wonder if it answers like Sgt. Shultz of Hogan’s Heroes... “I know nothingggg.”

Hmmmm a politically incorrect Siri, shudders!

 

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I have my phone set to English but live in Germany. The pronunciation of street names when using Maps is so bad its usually unintelligible.

Yeah, this is really bad! 😅