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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Sevenuno

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Jul 10, 2015 2:23 AM in response to Sevenuno

I think I found the solution. You can try changing the Region (under Settings>General>Language & Region) to Hong Kong. After that you should be able to get what you wanted.

yyc_el

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Jul 23, 2015 8:59 AM in response to Sevenuno

Thank you sooo much!

1000 stars for you!!

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

great thanks

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