Yes, this has always been one of the major difficulties with speech recognition. Siri uses universal speech recognition. This means, the standard male and female accents are set as the basic analysis for attempting to interpret what you are saying. Here in NZ, I use US as my speech input because I am from the US and have a Southwest US accent. There is no NZ accent programmed into Siri, so the people I know choose either British or Australian. They then modify their accent to sound more Australian or more British whenever they talk to Siri. Sometimes, it takes a few attempts. All of them sound different when talking to Siri or using speech dictation than how they sound normally.
In other words, you must practice sounding like the accent that Siri or Dictation is listening for if you want the speech recognition to understand you. Since I am in NZ, the British spelling rules apply. Therefore, I set my keyboard to UK or Australian. This means, though I have my speech input set to US, my words need to be UK. For instance, I must say full stop when I want a period punctuation mark. When I say period, the word period is inserted into my text. And yes, when I regularly forget this, I need to redo my dictation or do a lot of editing. David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA Email: [email protected] Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 Sent from my iPhone On 13/05/2013, at 13:54, Nimit Kaur <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh Great! First I thought, I was nuts or something was wrong with the > siri on my phone or something I don't know what I was thinking, glad > to know I am not the only one experiencing this issue. Siri hates my > accent to begin with, and now, she is answering me all weird and as > somebody mentioned, she is getting confused with whether I wanted to > ask her a question or dictate something. If I use the dictate button > on the message thing, it kind of works but it puts it all wrong in and > makes me very mad. I was texting my friend, "Vanila Chocolate cake. > Cool! When is your Washington Trip?" and Siri insertted, "Vamnila > chocolate cake. Cool! Hanging at alcohol New Zealand trip?". I was > annoyed and siri is not behaving on my end here in USA. So, I am glad > I am not the only one or it's not just my phone or anything. Haha! > Good day, now. > > > On 5/12/13, Ray T. Mahorney <[email protected]> wrote: >> I started seeing it Friday and I first thought it was a network issue unique >> to where I was at the >> time. Seems I was in error. >> >> >> Ray T. Mahorney >> WA4WGA >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf >> Of Marissa >> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 06:17 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Siri >> >> Extremely glad I am >> Not the only one experiencing this issue :) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "VIPhone" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > -- > Important quotes that people need to read and understand: > “JUST BECAUSE A MAN LACKS THE USE OF HIS EYES DOESN’T MEAN HE LACKS > VISION!!" By STEVIE WONDER > > "Just BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE DOESN't MEAN YOU CAN'T HEAR AND THINK!!" > By STEVIE WONDER > > Nimit > > More ways to contact me: > [email protected] > [email protected] > > Have a nice day, night, evening depending on where you are in the > world! 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