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As an Australian, Apples voice models have always sucked. I've tried using stt (again) more recently and its improved, but i'm so tired of having to Americanize my voice to get it to figure out what the hell i'm saying.

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As a Texan first, American second, I sympathize with this statement. Siri can't understand me probably 25% of the time. I use STT for iMessage while in the car, and half the time it will take 3+ times to either get it right or me give up, and hope to remember to text them by hand when I next stop.

What does this mean? When I pledged my oath to become a citizen, I had to promise to put America above all other allegiances. Is it in relation to allegiance in the general sense or some weird statement that only relates to STT?

I took it to mean “as someone with a Texas accent”

When they say everything's bigger in Texas, maybe that includes the patriotism.

Texans (generally) consider themselves Texans firsts. Similar to born and raised New Yorkers (NYC). That said, I really meant it tongue-in-cheek that my accent was too thick, and doesn't work well for Siri's STT model. ChatGPT's does way better, but I really don't like talking to an LLM.

Yeah, but I had my fingers crossed behind my back. I hail from, and only stand for, the Republic Of Scouse.

(and if you think Texans have it bad regarding being understood, try being a Scouser [1])

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5Isx6Hi0E

It also struggles with my NYC-area accent, which is only medium thick.

The Two Yoots problem. Do you use d's in place of t's such as dees/dems/dose/dere? I have a heavy queens accent so you'll hear me say things like "deres tree uh dem ova dere."

Surprised to read this as a Queens thing, this sounds perfectly at home in the Midwest.

Yah thats definitely Minnesota, eh?

Oh jeez

It's spoken fast with a nasal tone.

As a Brit, I concur.

That checks out.

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