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gta1216

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I'm trying to setup Siri on a relative's iPhone. The phone language is set to English, but she prefer to use Cantonese (Hong Kong) when using Siri. Is that possible? Most of the phone contacts are in English, with a handful in Chinese character.
 

now i see it

macrumors G4
Jan 2, 2002
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My recommendation is to turn it all off. Siri struggles with her native language English. She isn't very fluent in Cantonese
 

canuckRus

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May 18, 2014
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I'm trying to setup Siri on a relative's iPhone. The phone language is set to English, but she prefer to use Cantonese (Hong Kong) when using Siri. Is that possible? Most of the phone contacts are in English, with a handful in Chinese character.

It would appear that Siri doesn't do Chinese voice despite being able to input Cantonese(Hong Kong) feature using Siri & Search function.
 

Shirasaki

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May 16, 2015
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Siri just can’t do multi language. Worse, it cannot distinguish Japanese and Chinese when Chinese character is present, as many Japanese words include Chinese characters. It’s beyond terrible.
 
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