Is Siri (iPhone) language challenged?

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So this friend of mine (French) has the Iphone 4S that his company bought for him. It's a phone bought in the US and Siri doesn't understand neither of us really well if we talk to her in French or English. For example, we call her Siri and she understands the French equivalent of Syria (Syrie). So of course she acts all dumb like she can't understand what we're asking her because the sentence doesn't make any sense. I don't have a strong accent, my friend does.

His Siri is completely slow un dumb. He wasn't a fan of Apple products before and this is not helping. Poor him, his job forced and iphone and ipad on him lol.

[centralperk]

In my experience, Siri only understands english and only when spoken by a native speaker or someone who has almost no accent.

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May 22, 2012 10:04:21 GMT -5 centralperk said:

In my experience, Siri only understands english and only when spoken by a native speaker or someone who has almost no accent.

But they have Siri in other countries too! Is it a different software then? She spoke French to us when we switched the language to French.

[centralperk]

oh. I dunno. My experience is based on people here in Sweden who have bought their phones here. Maybe it's different for french, but Siri doesn't understand any Swedish.

[potatopie]

I always have to talk for DH when a call includes a computer. They never understand him. You'd think Siri would be better though.

[allibally]

Meh. Siri wouldn't be the reason for me having an iPhone. It's useful for my blind Uncle to use. But for the everyday person I doubt they use it that much.

DH has the 4s and he doesn't use it much. But uses the other features of the phone all the time. It works mostly okay for him. He doesn't have much of an accent anymore. I just think it's slow. :/ Isn't it just easier to open safari and search.

I have the 4 and I'm on it constantly. Apple has me hooked on their iPhone. I could never imagine switching to an Android.