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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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Constantcraving

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Posted on Nov 11, 2017 6:09 PM

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.

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Jun 4, 2016 2:28 AM in response to davidsf444

I am replying to an old post because I have just stumbled across it and ... it has solved a problem that has been bothering me for years! I live in France, but my mother tongue is English so (up until now) I dictated on my iPad in English and my iPhone in French. I now see that it is easy to be able to use either language on any device. MERCI / THANK YOU!

Dec 20, 2016 2:26 PM in response to ogtw

one way is to go to Settings>Siri>Language, choose Chinese (Cantonese - Hong Kong)

now, you can be "the phone be in English (UK), dictation in the English keyboard be in English (UK) and dictation in the Chinese keyboard be in Cantonese (HK)", but NOT "siri be in English (UK)," since Siri is now interacting in Cantonese.

If you do not use Siri, you can turn it off and it will still remember the setting above.

Jan 7, 2017 10:01 AM in response to jhcaldas

great thanks

Changing dictation (spoken) language