Multilingual Siri and bad undestanding of spoken language

This is going to be a long topic but there are things I can't understand about how the languages models work in iOS.


I get frustrated that in 2025 Siri still can't speak Portuguese from Portugal (PT) the Brazilian Portuguese (BR) is not the same language albeit being very similar. Why there isn't a Portuguese (PT) variant in Siri is something that I simply can't understand in 2025.


Another thing that I don't understand is, why in iMessage you can dictate a message in portuguese (PT) and iOS understands you perfectly well and transcribes the dictation flawlessly. But if you dicate the same message to Siri Portuguese (BR) the message is transcribed with errors?


It is almost as if you already have the tools to make Siri a better assistant at understanding language but you use it just for transcribing messages in iMessage.


Another thing I don't understand in 2025 is why have all this languages supported on the OS if you still can't have siri understand multiple languages at the same time. Most people nowadays are bilingual or trilingual it makes no sense to me, to limit Siri to use just one language at the same time.


For all this reasons I'm considering changing to android at least in this area they are way ahead of you guys and the Google ecosystem seems to me more and more enticing.


Hope you adress this issues soon before more people jump to the Android bandwagon.

Posted on Mar 16, 2025 04:09 AM

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