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As a Hongkonger, native in Cantonese (zh-hk/yue) and fluent in English (en) and work in Singapore (en-sg & zh-sg), I have a even more mundane use case that Siri
by phantomathkg 5mo ago
As a Hongkonger, native in Cantonese (zh-hk/yue) and fluent in English (en) and work in Singapore (en-sg & zh-sg), I have a even more mundane use case that Siri is not clever enough to support.
I want my location to be in Singapore (Singapore SIM/Card etc)
I want my UI to be in English.
I want my Siri speaks Cantonese to me.
For reason on Apple knows why, I have to use English (Singapore) as my UI and Siri language or Apple Intelligence will not turn on. As if the engineer who develop Siri/Apple Intelligence have never think about the needs of those who speaks more than one language.
- abustamam 5mo agoYou mean there are languages that are not English and countries that are not US?? News to big tech! (/s)
- ch4s3 5mo agoIt's pretty funny when you consider how many top people in SV are Chinese, Indian, or Russian and speak English as a second or third language.
- bombcar 5mo agoIt's not even really US-centric - it's that too many settings are controlled by one option "locale" and if you want a mixture that isn't represented, you're stuck, even in the USA. Example: ISO standard date 2026-05-14 with 24 hour clock, US digits 1,000,341.24, dollar signs, and English. Most systems won't let you get this, because they have one setting that controls all of it.
- Pay08 5mo agoHonestly, this is a complaint of mine with a lot of software. I'm Hungarian and live in Hungary. The amount I have to struggle to have British English language, American keyboard layout, and Hungarian time in Windows is insane.