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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4892 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 1 of 5 22 December 2012 at 12:42am | IP Logged |
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Has anyone tried to switch Siri on their phones to another language? I've been trying
to speak French to him (French Siri has a male voice), but am not having much luck. It doesn't matter what I try to say; the response is usually "je ne sais pas ce que ça vous dire" or "voulez-vous que je recherche << ... >> sur internet?" There's no room for error! He won't understand "jouez la musique" - it has to be "jouez de la musique." And even then, if I slur I get a search for "Joey des Lamouzié." And I'm still trying to figure out how to say "set the alarm" (réveil moi en 5 minutes) without Siri wanting to "montrer à Riley." Does anyone have a list of commands that work in French, or other foreign languages? It would be fun to have a French speaking phone, if I can ever get it down. side note: Franco-Siri does have some of Anglo-Siri's humor. Ask him "voulez-vous coucher avec moi?"; the reply was "j'ai déjà tout ce dont j'ai besoin dans le nuage." edit: I was looking in the wrong places. I couldn't find any articles, but I just found a bunch of you tube videos. I'll post what I find ... Edited by kanewai on 22 December 2012 at 12:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5384 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 5 22 December 2012 at 9:22pm | IP Logged |
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I don't get understood unless I switch to a European accent, even when I pick Canadian French, so I just
switch to English... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4668 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 3 of 5 23 December 2012 at 8:28pm | IP Logged |
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I just switched my phone to French and Siri understands the command "Appelle [name]", but
I haven't tried anything else (I had actually never used Siri until today, so I don't even know what the equivalent English commands are). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4691 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 4 of 5 23 December 2012 at 9:17pm | IP Logged |
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Siri has been somewhat difficult to use in one's native language, so I wouldn't feel TOO bad. FWIW, I have my phone
set entirely to German, including Siri, and I've been able to get it to do some things, but there aren't that many things that I've found it useful for. Part of the problem is that not all of the functionality available in English has been available in other languages. BTW, on my phone, when I bring up the Siri prompt, there's a "(i)" button that, when pressed, displays a list of potential Siri commands. I learned to use Siri by watching youtube videos and the like showing demonstrations of people using it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4905 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French | Message 5 of 5 02 January 2013 at 5:40am | IP Logged |
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Siri in French is really a bugger. It works fine in Spanish, and even my voice
recognition app understands the few phrases i know in Hungarian. It seems Siri in French is just like the French! You have to be PERFECT for them to understand. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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