I would guess that it's more to do with the internet connection and microphone quality than any setting. I don't think Siri/dictation rely on settings to pick your accent. There are simply too many accents for this to work. A Scottish accent is probably more different from the Queen's English than a Californian accent. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there are any accent settings for Siri or dictation. And I don't think it tries to narrow the range of matches based on your region settings or the voice you have set for speech output. I'm guessing it just runs your speech through its database until it gets a match, and limits this only by language, not accent.
But all this is just my guessing. :) Main thing is, cool for you that it works so well on your fancy new iMac! Woot woot! On 06/05/2013, at 6:06 AM, Matt Dierckens <[email protected]> wrote: I'm actually quite surprised that being from Canada, Siri and Mac dictate both don't screw up. Sometimes they do, of course, you'll get that with anything. Matt Sent from my mac Twitter: matt692 On 2013-05-05, at 4:01 PM, Eugenia Firth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey there > Who knows. Siri doesn't always understand Louisiana/Texas talk either. It's > so funny. > On May 5, 2013, at 2:39 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello All. >> >> I have set up Dictation using the I Mac and have not used it until now. I >> could not believe how accurate it was even though I'm using Alex. The funny >> thing is if I chose the American Voice on my I phone 5 it always gets things >> wrong because of my British accent. I wonder then if I'm using Alex on my I >> Mac then how does that understand my British accent whereas Samantha on my I >> phone 5 does not. >> >> Kawal. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
