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Being multilingual is the bane of the Apple input experience. My day-to-day interactions are in English, but I speak with family members in Russian. Whenever a
by xattt 4y ago
Being multilingual is the bane of the Apple input experience. My day-to-day interactions are in English, but I speak with family members in Russian.
Whenever a Russian text comes through, English Siri will be sure to mangle it, like Mojibake of the mid-90s and early-200s.
There is also no way to ask English Siri to play a song with a non-English title. There actually seems to be a cottage industry of Russian songs on Apple Music with literal translations for this reason.
Russian Siri has a pretty good success rate at picking up English speech but I just don’t want Russian Siri for the rest of the day.
Don’t get me started if you have a multi-language household and want to have HomeKit and Siri.
I think the solution would be to have a UI for picking primary, secondary and tertiary languages for voice interactions. Sadly, I think there won’t be any work done because it’s not perceived as a priority, despite Apple’s messaging at inclusivity and diversity.