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Changing dictation (spoken) language

Hi,

This has been annoying me for a very long time now. How do you change the dictation language in iOS?

My iPhone and siri is set to English (UK) and I have the following keyboards: English(UK) Chinese(Traditional) - Stroke Emoji

I use Chinese Traditional and speak Cantonese, however, the dictation in the Chinese keyboard only registers mandarin. If I change siri to Cantonese(Hong Kong) or the phone's language to chinese (Hong Kong), it will register Cantonese in stead of mandarin in dictation.

Is there a way to make the phone be in English (UK), siri be in English (UK), dictation in the English keyboard be in English (UK) and dictation in the Chinese keyboard be in Cantonese (HK) ?

Thanks a lot to whoever helps!!

iPhone 4S, iOS 8.1

Posted on Oct 20, 2014 3:20 PM

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Sep 7, 2017 9:40 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

It is not working as intended at all. Picking a Hong Kong keyboard as your ONLY keyboard will allow your dictation to include both english and chinese.


Having even any other keyboard, except emoji, will instantly disable your chinese dictation and limit you to english only. If you don't think this is a bug, you're just arguing for the sake of arguing.


Unless you think a bilingual society such as Hong Kong should be deprived of an english keyboard.

Sep 8, 2017 2:47 PM in response to mariabear16

Thank you for picking me out of a 3-year old thread to tell me something that I said under an older version of iOS may not work now. If you are experiencing issues with doing something at this time, I suggest you either start your own thread to ask the question and wait for help, or take the time to contact Apple and inquire from them.

Nov 11, 2017 6:09 PM in response to ogtw

Finally found a solution! My grandpa was asking me about the same situation.

Turns out you can just 3d press the voice dictation microphone button until the dictation settings menu comes up (you can also change voice dictation language here), make sure you click cantonese instead of mandarin (or whatever language you’re trying to add into the voice dictation recgonition). Should be fine after this change.

Changing dictation (spoken) language

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