Hi,

I agree.  I just think its going by language, not accent..

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On May 5, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Nicholas Parsons <[email protected]> 
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> 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.
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