How to make Siri Recognize Artist Names or song titles in a foreign language?

Dear community specialists,

the primary language setting for my Macs, iPhone, and the Home Pods is English. But the music collection in my iTunes Library is from many different countries and in many different languages - mostly German, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, not only in English. Siri rarely understands the names of the artists or the albums, if they are not in English. When I ask for songs from a German artist, the results are funny, but very disappointing. So far, I found two workarounds to be able to ask Siri for the songs in a foreign language:

  • I create a playlist with an English name and ask Siri on the Home Pod to play it.
  • I play a song from the album or the artist in the foreign language and ask Siri to tell me the name. Then I try to mimic Siri's mangled pronounciation.

Both work-around are not very satisfactory. How are we supposed to use a multi-lingual iTunes Library with our HomePods? Is there a way to teach Siri on the HomePod how to pronounce the artist names and album correctly?

Are there any plans to make Siri polyglott ?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015), macOS High Sierra (10.13.6), 2,8 GHz Intel Core i7 16 GB 1TB L

Posted on Jul 25, 2018 12:52 PM

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Jul 25, 2018 3:27 PM in response to léonie

Hello léonie,

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities! I understand that you have some questions and suggestions about the way that your HomePod recognizes different artists and song names due to the different countries and languages of the music content in your iTunes Library. I will be glad to suggest some information in regards your situation.
First, we'd like to have one of our support advisors take a closer look at your current situation and we'd like to invite you to contact them through this link:
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In addition, we'd like to ask you to offer your valuable feedback via this link:
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Thank you and we hope you have a great day!

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