I haven't had an issue with the pronunciations but it definitely uses different word choices. At one point it had trouble understanding me and I realized that I set to also listen for Australian (instead of just speaking Australian). Once I changed it back to listen for US English, the understanding problems disappeared.
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Listen to Siri's More Natural Voice in iOS 11
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The title of this article is misleading. Only about 2% of the video was demonstrating the voice. Let's hear a side-by-side comparison with the current Siri, reading much longer phrases.
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If you've had trouble with Siri across multiple devices, then the common factors are you and possibly your internet connection. Have you considered that? Honest question because I use Siri all the time, and she understands nearly all of my queries correctly.
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If you've had trouble with Siri across multiple devices, then the common factors are you and possibly your internet connection. Have you considered that? Honest question because I use Siri all the time, and she understands nearly all of my queries correctly.
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I'm British and I actually get on better with American English when it comes to Siri.
Siri is server based and not iOS based. Sometimes the responses are accurate and other times it's not. But in any case, I see Apple working very diligently to have Siri ready by iOS 11 and for the Home Pod. It's their time to bring Siri the necessary changes it ultimately needs.
With regard to voices, I'd pay money for Christopher Walken:
Me: Siri, where was The Lord of the Rings filmed?
Siri Chris: One second. I went on the internet. I found some things. You should look. Now.
Me: Siri, where was The Lord of the Rings filmed?
Siri Chris: One second. I went on the internet. I found some things. You should look. Now.
I switched to male Siri a long time ago. The female Siri was too judgemental for me. I couldn't stand the disappointment in her voice. Ok, she wasn't as judgmental as my old garmin gps unit, but still...
The female voice sounds a lot more natural. When I heard the male voice at the conference, it sounded like Watson from the Jeopardy challenge and I thought it was still pretty robotic, but from the clip in this video, it sounded natural and not Watson-like.
Only American English speaking Siri.
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New Siri voice is so much better I switched to American.
But like this is just for the American voices.
The Australian voice still pronounces voila and voy-la. Why have such an out of the norm word if you can’t even say it.
The Australian voice still pronounces voila and voy-la. Why have such an out of the norm word if you can’t even say it.
Have hope, I have several Australian friends who have successfully learned to speak American.
