Yes mate, Aussie seems to understand me better than the american female. I also prefer the Aussie accent better.
Shame Apple couldn't do a male and female voice for each country, or even better Darth Vader
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Which Siri voice to use- UK or US?
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Yes mate, Aussie seems to understand me better than the american female. I also prefer the Aussie accent better.
Shame Apple couldn't do a male and female voice for each country, or even better Darth Vader
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But I asunder the impression that we get a guy in the UK and a girl In the US?
Looking forward to UPS @ about midday.
But I asunder the impression that we get a guy in the UK and a girl In the US?
Looking forward to UPS @ about midday.
Yes mate, Aussie seems to understand me better than the american female. I also prefer the Aussie accent better.
Shame Apple couldn't do a male and female voice for each country, or even better Darth Vader
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Will use either of them then...something about using a guy as a personal assistant seems weird to me.
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You can choose but yes the default will be set to the male UK voice.
Why does choosing between (english) voices have a bearing on Siri's ability to understand you, surely the input and output should be separate and not necessarily affect each other. Has this actually been confirmed? or is it just Siri itself having got better at understanding you because its been used before the change?
If this is the way they have decided to 'target' the translation to local dialects, then I find it a strange way to do it, why not have a separate setting for dialect to which voice is used, they could even monetize it then by selling you different voices, like some Sat Navs do.
If this is the way they have decided to 'target' the translation to local dialects, then I find it a strange way to do it, why not have a separate setting for dialect to which voice is used, they could even monetize it then by selling you different voices, like some Sat Navs do.
I'm not convinced it does make any difference for it understanding what you say. I've used the US voice right from the start as I don't particularly want my phone to be male
So far it's been almost flawless.
I'm not convinced it does make any difference for it understanding what you say. I've used the US voice right from the start as I don't particularly want my phone to be male
That's good then
I think the US voice sounds the best.
No, I agree, there's no plausible mechanism to do this as it doesn't know when it's wrong.
I'd prefer the US voice, but I imagine it would render voice recognition even worse than it already is.
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This is a good point, I'd love to use the American lady voice as I don't like the British man one - does it actually make a difference to the voice recognition?
For the authentic Indian call centre experience Siri would not understand you at all, and you wouldn't be able to understand a word you got back in reply either.