Siri mispronouncing after 17.1.1 update?

This exact same thing has been happening to me since the update too. I also have a 12, I have the male Indian voice. But I’ve tried switching the voice to other accents and it does the same thing. It’s weird, because if I ask Siri to give me directions to a place, he says “getting directions to ___” and says it correctly. But then when he’s announcing the directions, it’s wrong. He said “fairgrounds” as “fajengas”. But the worst is when he says “Niagara”. He now calls it “nig*ara” 😩

I am having the exact same problem, and it started at the exact same time (as soon as I upgraded to the new iOS). It happens most often in the Maps app (just the other day, Siri added a syllable to "Gastonia" and pronounced it "Gastononia"), but I have noticed that names are being mispronounced as well (the most annoying being my last name that was previously pronounced correctly and now is not). I have male Indian Siri, so maybe it's an issue specific to the Indian voices?

I am using the Male Indian voice on my iPhone 12 Pro Max IOS 17.1.2

since this last update it mispronounces a BUNCH of stuff on CarPlay mostly using maps directions. “Arrived” is “rivved” but there are too many other weird ones to list. Super goofy. I don’t want to change my Stuber voice tho. I named him Siri Lanka 😊

Oh man I have been suffering through this same thing too. I mostly noticed when listening side reads texts in my AirPods. Same voice same phone. No one believed me cause it only happens in my ears LOL.

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Glad it's not just me--I have a female Indian voice and it completely mangles some words, cutting off or adding syllables and skipping several consonants completely. Wanted to go on a fun little excursion on the internet to learn more about the work that goes behind the accent and vocabulary variations, but of course since Apple is so secretive, nothing to be found.

Guess I'll just have to go study NLP and do it the long way lolol.

Anyway at least I'm not crazy. Wonder why this is happening. Assumed it was because Apple directs fewer resources to voice variants depending on market need.