Comments on: Siri Quick Tip: Overcoming Unusual Name Spellings

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 03:27:17 +0000

Siri used to say my girlfriends name correctly. Then i switched to ios 6. Her name is Deanna. It is pronounced Dee Anna. I tried the phonetic spelling and every other trick but siri keeps calling her Dina. So frustrating. Can anyone help?

By: Judi

Judi — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:56:31 +0000

How do I remove a child- added the wrong person accidentally – from Siri?

By: birksmom

birksmom — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:59:24 +0000

This shortcut idea is great, however, it doesn’t work with IOS 5.1 and higher – Apple removed the capability!! now what to do?

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 23 May 2012 02:45:17 +0000

My daughters name is McCailla. As a short cut I’ve always typed ‘mc’ when texting. When I got my iPhone, I added her name to the keyboard shortcuts so when I type ‘mc’ it will automatically put ‘McCailla’ in its place. However, even after adding McCailla to my contacts and using the above instruction by adding the phonetic first name to the contact…Siri still doesnt spell my daughters name correctly in a text when spoken. Not really sure what else to do from here.

By: Kelly G

Kelly G — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 18:50:41 +0000

Update on my problem above.. the solution came to me in the middle on the night, lol. Add it as a ‘shortcut’.. So I’ve added “Jeff” as the shortcut for the word “Geof”. And it works- so at least that will help those that have a different spelling of a name.

By: Kelly G

Kelly G — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:10:50 +0000

Okay- here is my problem.. my husbands name is Geof not Jeff. So when I’m doing a spoken text or email and I say his name, she ALWAYS spells it “Jeff”.. Any work around for this type of thing? So annoying.

By: Jeremy Johnstone

Jeremy Johnstone — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:40:21 +0000

You do know you can edit your “me” contact card on the phone and add family relations directly there, right? No need to set them manually inside Siri jumping through pronunciation hoops, just edit the address book entry and be done with it for good.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:16:36 +0000

In reply to NaviGATR. I don't know if there's any way to change how Siri pronounces things. The only thing I was able to do was make Siri actually recognize a contact using what Siri thought I was saying should be spelled like. I can imagine there are a ton of names out there that Siri is going to have trouble with. Until Apple completes languages for various nationalities you're definitely going to see some stumbling with pronunciations and spellings.

By: bruab

bruab — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:03:34 +0000

In reply to NaviGATR.

Me too. I’ve tried nicknames and phonetic names with no effect. I deleted and re-entered
a contact and it used the phonetic name once, then I added a nickname and now it won’t use
either no matter what I do. Frustrating.

By: NaviGATR

NaviGATR — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:11:10 +0000

In reply to Brandon.

Hey Brandon,

Thanks for this info. Siri has been mangling my last name. I’ve done what you suggested and added the phonetic spelling to all of my family’s contacts, but Siri has not changed the way she says it.

Any idea what I can do to force her to use the phonetic spelling?

Thanks!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:19:28 +0000

I figured I wasn’t the only one!

🙂

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:11:46 +0000

Holy frack. Thanks for this post. Siri was driving me nuts w/mispronunciations.