Siri Name Recognition Issues for Multilingual Contacts

Dear Apple Support,

I am writing to report an ongoing issue with Siri's recognition of non-English names. I work and live in Italy, frequently conversing in both Italian and English (not only), and I rely on Siri to correctly recognize and process names for contacts (it is illegal and extremely dangerous to manually search for or type in telephone numbers whilst driving). However, Siri’s accuracy has dramatically declined with the change of phone generation, making it almost impossible to use voice commands effectively.

I maintain a contact database of over 14,000 individuals, which is synced with Outlook for professional correspondence. While I understand phonetic spellings can sometimes improve recognition, manually adjusting thousands of contacts is not feasible, nor would it work for names that must remain properly formatted in Outlook.

I would appreciate any guidance on improving Siri’s accuracy with multilingual names. .

Thanking you in advance for your help and your positive response.

Best regards


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Posted on May 8, 2025 1:26 AM

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May 8, 2025 10:33 PM in response to Beer loving Scotsman

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