Can speech to text understand southern accents?

[@DavidDrummondTX]

When my French Canadian friend was here visiting in Texas, no one could understand her accent when we went through a drive-thru. One day she got frustrated and gave her best attempt at a strong southern accent and they got every word!

[@Long_Haired_Country_Boy]

I’m diabetic from Oklahoma and use a Dexcom g6 cgm. I can ask Siri what my sugar is. So far she’s heard “how’s meshuga” and “how’s My shugga “.

[@cisium1184]

Apparently your Siri is an old Yiddish guy.

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

Oy vey..

[@michaelrae2497]

Hi from a fellow Oklahoman

[@SandraWatkinsB]

Southern accents. When I first moved here in 1982, I used to smile at people talking to me, then ask my husband what they said!

[@slcRN1971]

When my (Northern born and raised) husband and I went to visit relatives in Kentucky and Arkansas, I became his official interpreter. The first time that we visited them, he still had most of his Northeast (Connecticut) accent....... and.... he would get this response after he would talk to strangers (in their areas): “Yah ain’t from round these parts..” or “From the North, ain’t ya”.

[@elevenbucks5682]

My family is Texan, my brother moved to California and when he would order they would ask him to say it again because they loved to hear him talk.

[@MemphisTiger]

Don't feel too bad. I was born and raised in the south, still live here, and still have trouble understanding some of my fellow southerners! lol

[@terraharris1890]

Five years later I still have to translate somethings for my wife

[@a.sanders9585]

I'm from Louisiana and people from there will ask where are you from. I'll be with my parents, siblings or husband. I'm like the same place they are from. One guy called his Mama and said listen to this lady, she sounds like Reba. If only I had her money. Lol. Personally I think I sound like everyone else.

[@catherinecooley3254]

During the Covid lockdown last year our cluster parish of 3 churches livestreanmed from one church One of our Priests has a slight southern accent,one has a toned down Pennsylvania accent and our last priest is from Uganda.The auto closed captions were an unbelievable mess no matter which priest was doing the service

[@HappyLife693]

😆🤣

[@feliciapate7926]

Those things are a hot mess even when the person has the PERFECT American-newscaster accent. It's insane! You'd think the technology would be better by now. On regular TV, it's worse because the captions often come out looking like friggin' Martian gobbledeegook.

[@melissapyle7879]

😂😂😂

[@Ash-ms]

😂 I constantly get bizarre texts from my Appalachian Nana because she uses speech-to-text lol

[@P_RO_]

I do 'mountain talk' pretty good being raised at the south end of the Appalachians, but ain't no phone could come close to gettin' it.

[@ytalgorythm9093]

Fer a robut Tah Undrstan' ya, ya gotta tawk like a robut. That was a joke, but seriously, to make it actually say what I want I gotta slow down and talk robotically

[@MrsAlmaTrumble]

Love this. My late mother-in-law use to have me repeat everything I said at least once because she couldn't understand me.

[@Zoot_of_Anthrax]

Same goes the other way though. I moved from chicago to dallas and took me a solid year to realize nobody understood me because i talked too fast!

[@hbuels7125]

I hate it. It's destroying my relationship. It's completely destroyed out communication.

[@vickyr8823]

My FIL has a deep New Orleans accent and loves to do talk to text and doesn’t check before he sends. Several times we’ve gotten texts from him in german and other wtf texts 🤣😂.

[@QixTheDS]

In German. Oh my lord

[@Daehawk]

Chester was from Gunsmoke killed me. God cracked me up. I understood them fine. My accent is rough. Lord if I wasn't lookin at the screen Id swear that man in the bow tie was Leslie Jordan.

[@Beachtrader0007]

none of them had a deep south accent. They was city raised and had some schoolin'

[@ytalgorythm9093]

@@Beachtrader0007 I mean, hopefully all of ya are getting "some" schoolin' though lol.

[@Beachtrader0007]

@@ytalgorythm9093 That's debatable. My school boards have been making national news, not in a good way.

[@claresutton2819]

I only just recently found this channel on KZbin, and have been giggling my head off from over here in Australia. You are so wonderful! Thank you for brightening my day! P.S. You all sound like the movies, to Australians. And yet, you are real. So exotic. Mind blown! xoxo

[@GenXfrom75]

I'm in Charleston,SC, from Georgetown, SC. I honestly had to quit using speech to text. It always messes up at least two important words in my messages. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💯

[@josiequewl438]

Southerner here! The more you use speech to text, the better the "translations" will be. (Know this from personal experience.)

[@Fixing2snap]

That’s good to know!!! I get so frustrated I hardly do it

[@HosCreates]

I'm a Midwesterner and it still doesn't understand me, I gave up !!

[@ytalgorythm9093]

never have gotten better for me. But, Ok... hope so.

[@AB2B]

3 years, and it still thinks sweetie is su-wheat-e, no matter how many times I try. It doesn't care for Appalachian. lol

[@Kari.F.]

Oh, my goodness. I can't remember the last time I laughed this hard! Both the videos and some of the comments are hilarious! 👏

[@connieduncan4239]

My MIL asked me ‘how are y’all today’. I said ‘we’re fine just tired though’ I pushed send button before reading. Talk text sent ‘we’re fine you nasty ho’ lol 😆

[@sherriflowers6380]

Oh my goodness! That’s hilarious!!!😂😂😂

[@HariSeldon913]

That's what you told her, and you're sticking to your story! 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱

[@alicesmith7020]

Oh Connie, I laughed so hard I threw my back out.

[@Kari.F.]

I hope you still have a good relationship! 😂😂😂

[@purpledreamer9654]

OMFGG 😂😊😂🤣😂🤣😂 Thanks for sharing and giving me a giggle As That has to be one of the funniest translations I have read Thanks for sharing It doesn't understand the regional accents in England either☺️🙄😀

[@starchick5815]

Glad I wasn’t drinking anything because I would have spit it through my nose when the one woman said “mayonnaise is the universal language “ 🤣🤣

[@ktspirit1]

My mother had one of those voice to text machines for the hearing impaired on her landline phone. It messed up everything I said on my end, sometimes in crude ways. I often had to explain to her, "Mama, you know I didn't say that!" She gave up on that thing, LOL

[@HappyLife693]

🤣🤣

[@MrArob826]

I like the comment about turning onto a shooting clay...LOL

[@crystallong9625]

I’m from Texas and I constantly have issues with my phone using the “talk to text” feature because of my Texas accent. It spits out the darnedest things sometimes!! 😂

[@shannonnichols3415]

Yes-same here. Because we use slang terms as we just heard, that’s true, but we don’t annunciate those slang terms! So my “Lord have mercy” is “Lorda Mercy”! So I guess I get it.

[@Selena-gz9ts]

You forgot to start that with y'all

[@elwoodblues9613]

How does it write "fixinta" and "howzyermomndem"?

[@crystallong9625]

@@elwoodblues9613 🤣 It varies from time to time.

[@crystallong9625]

@@Selena-gz9ts I apologize, y’all!! Lol

[@lilykep]

I started using speech to text recently and it does ok. The bad thing is it gets you complacent by doing right, then makes you text some nonsense to your mama. Nonsense that you, of course, don't notice until after you've already sent the text.

[@HosCreates]

yeeeep!

[@mazayashah213]

I come here for wholesome content and I'm never disappointed

[@JasonMoir]

I barely recognized Florida guy without the sunglasses on the top of his head.

[@cisium1184]

I don't have a Southern accent. But I would use Siri a lot more if she had one.

[@carolynpastorek9228]

Hey, y’all, I got a nifty magnet for my dishwasher because I’m a Potlucker! Potluckist? Whatever! It warns against one of the Cardinal Sins. Let’s keep the videos coming from this talented bunch of actors!

[@22ERICSHELLY]

I live in South Louisiana and everyone says I have a really strong southern drawl. I don't like speaking into my phone, because it doesn't get it right. You better make sure you proof read before sending it out in a text! May Jesus continue to bless you and your family

[@skipalidon]

Lawd, Lawd, Lawd. I miss my Southern family. They talk natural.

[@jenniferbates2811]

This is wicked funny! I live in Rhode Island and I have the same problem.

[@techelife]

I was driving in New Orleans, bringing a friend to Tulane Medical Center. I couldn’t get directions to 2-lane for nothing! Frustrating :(

[@birds-and-blooms]

Wait - Vienna Suasage is a southern thing? Our family once hailed from Alabama, I grew up on Vienna Sausage Sandwiches with mayonnaise of course. I had no idea.

[@sunny-sq6ci]

that's funny. my family is Korean, and we or at least i grew up eating them, and still do. though i just eat them as is

[@6ec6YRFPTcC]

Vienna sausage, saltine crackers, and hot sauce

[@pamelamason3004]

I think they chose that because some southern people pronounce Vienna with a long i--Vie-anna, instead of Vee-anna.

[@deedeeedwinburks8614]

This Really cracked me up 😂!! Most people here in Southern Missouri... tell me I sound more like Cajun! Too bad the phone don't text the way we talk in Alabama. I.e. here would be heuh, y'all would be yaw, I guess would be, I reeekon (can't spell that accent) I always say down yonder... yonder would be, yonduh, & on & on.

[@mady9105]

it doesn't understand me ever lmao, thought i didn't have an accent

[@mady9105]

am i first lmao

[@jakesgenuineanarchy5955]

Nice job on being first my dude.

[@billp3914]

When I went to Germany in 82 people would beg me to talk my Texas southern accent was so strong it was hilarious. You should had heard me speaking German with my accent It was an absolute abomination

[@pamela5250]

“Ready for its next life as a shooting clay”😂😂😂. I’ve definitely felt that way after talk to texting on my phone. Trying to tell my truck to call someone is even worse.

[@KoshN]

Did you ever notice that Speech-to-Text, sometimes gets a word correct and then changes it to the wrong word? You have to watch it closely but I've seen this happen, usually while my finger is approaching the send arrow and is close enough to actually send.

[@JPMJPM]

Have you ever seen that video with the two Scotsmen trying to use a voice-activated elevator? Hilarious!

[@6butterflywings6]

“Eleven!!!! For Scotland!” LOL. The best.

[@gregb6469]

The best way to distinguish between pen and pin is to always say 'ink pen' when referring to the former.

[@bamachine]

I do have a southern accent but not nearly as extreme as some of those on the video but voice recognition hates my voice because it is so deep.

[@snakemanwilliams7231]

This is so true!!! My wife is from Arkansas and I have to interpret for her on occasion with our friends. And no, OnStar doesn’t speak Southern either 🤦🏻‍♂️ Couple of her favorite sayings “And then he tumped we out of the wagon” “Can you give me a pump on your bike to my house?” God I love that woman 👩🏼‍🦳❤️

[@2Blessed]

My Southern-born hubby has been trying to use voice commands to make calls on his phone - it is hilarious to hear him, and the phone never recognizes what he says!

[@Amcsae]

I got: -You'll ask your Aunt Loretta and she left her pork skins and Vienna sausages in the church vestibule again - the lawyer left his good pain on the chest of drawers at home so he wrote the whole petition and crayon - that walk ride is covered in oil so I'm going to need something else to get this mayonnaise off my pajamas - there's been in the Attic full of pawpaws lures - I went to the yard sale looking for britches and all I got was eaten up by fire ants - when Auburn scored that field goal mama got so ill she mashed every button on the remote control - you can take Route 47 to Galveston but y'all better watch out for armadillo - Lord of Mercy Eileen bought every piece of jerky in the Buc-ee'd

[@ntgm20]

As hard as I try, I couldn't get my phone to recognize PawPaw or MawMaw as anything other than Papa or Mama. Changes context quite a bit.

[@vickyr8823]

I shortened to Maw and Paw and it worked . I had the same problem lol

[@HariSeldon913]

First glance I thought you had PawPaw and MeeMaw, so I was going to ask why it isn't PeePaw. Guess I'll have to save that joke for another time.

[@EileenJoyHappy]

Oh I'm so glad it's not just me!

[@thelegoyoda6065]

It’s so true y’all!

[@marayaadams]

That was so funny, this is now my favorite video made by you😂😂😂

[@kimtodd1803]

Y'all my uncle Burt can text southern Texan slang that's a gift😂😂

[@janeherman7055]

I agree Siri needs to learn REAL southern slang…

[@acmcbride-olson9320]

My phone screws up my accent so badly and so often when I use the dictate feature that I call it Automistake, not auto correct.

[@Cmallon81]

I was trying to get directions to Bowie, MD, using Siri one day and kept getting an error message. After about 10 minutes of yelling at Siri it occurred to me to pronounce it like the singer’s name. That finally worked. Wonder what might happen if I ever need directions to Miami, OK?🤣

[@pokemonmaster2151]

This is why I hate text-to-speak thing on phone. My southern accent isn't even that deep.

[@111scone]

I've been telling my husband that speech to text doesn't speak southern

[@iwanttobelieve5970]

Oh my two year old granddaughter has a hilarious Kentucky accent, even more than any of her family members.

[@largedoglover99]

I have a neutral accent and the stupid device can't understand me either. It's not personal, it's universal.

[@DodiTov]

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[@cisium1184]

The More You Know....

[@DodiTov]

@@cisium1184 Yeah, my dentist didn't know what it was when he saw it.

[@oscarlinebaugh8930]

Also, a Network Administrator will perform port scans on computers and network devices connected to the network to secure his network.

[@elizabethbowie9753]

The txt never said Oil in a Southern accent! It didn't say Oil at all.🙄

[@Kerryjotx]

I think that they pre-filled in some of these words in the Siri lexicon. I have said the word Buc-ee’s to my Texas-based iPhone for years and it has NEVER spelled it right. How did they get so many people to be able to say Buc-ee’s and have Siri know how to spell it? Even when I type at the correct way, auto correct changes it to Buckys.

[@rayjohnson2387]

The big question is...why do u have mayonnaise on your pajamas??? 🤔

[@cherylhee9762]

It took me a while to really find out chest of drawers wasn't Chester drawers invented by Chester.

[@pamela5250]

I had some family member that thought it was a Chester drawers too.

[@elwoodblues9613]

Yessir, my wife's a native Texan, so I don't know if she's saying "pen" or "pin". The funniest thing: she was usung speakwrite, and said "fork." But it came out as "fark." And speakwrite wrote [censored by both Elwood and KZbin].

[@jordanhicks5131]

I'm dying 🤣 No wonder I never use that function

[@jrbohan2]

I'm surprised how well it did since she makes some mistakes with my Midwest accent. Maybe we gotta talk with a California accent. Though it does work when I annunciate so much to sound like a speech therapist.

[@skirtonbear1]

Nope. Siri does no better with a west coast accent. Native Californian, here. I annunciate slowly, am stage trained in speech and still have to EDIT every time!

[@jb6712]

I hope you meant ENUNCIATE, meaning to speak; annunciate means to make an announcement.

[@jrbohan2]

@@jb6712woops, it feels like I'm making an announcement to make her understand me. Lol.

[@joenobles156]

Southern iPhone users need a Dorthy Jo or Betty Lou instead of Siri.

[@elizabethbowie9753]

I have a friend, Dottie Millo, who voicemailed/txt me. It said Daddy Whatever...!!! I thot it was a prank call from a creep!!! I dated to call back the number, & we had a Great Laugh!! She said, when her grandson txtd her, the same thing happened!!! Great "inventions," IF Only they Worked!!!! See what I mean??? Spellcheck can't even get it right!! I said, I daRed/ dared to call that number back..... !!!!

[@beeamerica5024]

It ain't Southerners that talk funny it's the rest of the country that talks funny 😁

[@alonespirit9923]

Truth! :D

[@mlplife]

Alexa really struggles with me... and my accent isn't even strong

[@lillygregan2691]

Omg I love you guys 😁

[@ConservativeJoanna]

Yall I'm having a southern meltdown at home... I CAN'T FIND THE TEA BAGS😭

[@plove523]

Y’all should try fried okra. It always comes up with something regarding Oprah.

[@pamela5250]

My grandma used to say “okree” I could only imagine what Siri would say if it could hear her talk.

[@brad2403]

My dad uses this and it takes me sometimes forever to figure out what he’s even talking about.Hopefully it’s never important or he will have to wait for me to decipher the message.🤣

[@pixietwitch]

Playing telephone with your telephone.

[@FriedShrimpPoBoy]

I’ve heard if you set your phone to New Zealand it’ll understand southern.

[@HosCreates]

I had to set mine to Australian..

[@angelbrown4221]

Love this!!!💜💜💜 mine never picks up most of my words. My fitbit watch ⌚ is the worst. Half of my words are so wrong. I'd just assume to call the person or send a voice message. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@cowboy4jesus3N1]

I use text to speech just to have fun with my friends. It never got anything I spoke correctly.

[@captainskippy6622]

Y’all shoulda got my wife for this. She was raised in NY but has been here 45 years. She basically talks like us just faster. Her family text are legendary. And hilarious.

[@MemphisTiger]

I'm southern and this is absolutely HILARIOUS because it is so true!

[@andreabryant47]

I HATE text to talk lol it never understands a word I say. When I'm driving I can't use speech to text my daughter Ryli because it says "You don't have a Rolly in your contacts". No matter how much I try to enunciate the "y"... 🙄

[@pamela5250]

I kept trying to “call Nate”. And it kept saying you don’t have Night in your contacts. The madder I get the worse it gets then it would dial “8” and get nowhere. I😂😂

[@Bruceg1950]

Back in ‘84 I was transferred to Gadsden Alabama as a manager of a well known full service restaurant. The first 2+ weeks I was there I didn’t understand at least 80% of what people were saying, I would just smile and nod my head. I’m sure my employees thought I was an idiot.

[@heathersmeather]

Siri thinks I curse like a sailor. I don’t curse and my husband, family, and friends have gotten a good laugh at some of my texts. I’ve gotten better about proof reading.😕

[@indietallirado4767]

Try "Heading along Bucklake Rd toward the house now. Make sure the big blue bowl is clean for tater salad." Had fun with that one day, quite a few giggles were had at first. Then it became annoying.

[@Weary_Dragon]

Hey y’all I’m so excited for this

[@indi1omccoln565]

I’m too southern/country because Siri wouldn’t get half my words correct anyway

[@Laura-Yu]

I think text to speech will always not perfectly transcribe all the words perfectly regardless of what American/English accent you have. It’s much harder if you have a foreign accent (especially Asian, which is why my parents most likely won’t use this)

[@freestonew]

I was thinking, the other day, why don't someone start a tv channel where every single announcer and news person have a real southern accent. In other words, a channel just for southerners and for those who love the south! And yes, have these voice-to-text apps have a parallel option for southern.

[@gaoutlaw]

My phone’s text to talk never understands my southern voice.

[@PJ_the_tortie]

Lol I've tried it and some of it is comical.

[@BlueMtsDreamer]

I laughed and laughed. Then I shared.. tooo funny!

[@HikaruRain]

I live in the South and shocker have an Android and have none of these problems with my talk to text. It hears all my words perfectly.

[@suzannebowen9641]

you need to add boston market to the round up. For realz

[@oldokieworkshop4460]

I had to finally give up on trying to use the "speak to text" thing.. My Okie accent combined with a big ole dip of Copenhagen was just too much for it to be able to figure out WHAT I was saying I guess?? I wonder if it can understand what those Boston folks are saying??

[@Dleefrlula]

Lol I use it in the car to dial the phone hands free. Im constantly yelling “cancel”! To avoid calling the wrong person.

[@Lifeupstream]

So exciting to see Charlie Ray outside of TikTok! He’s a Southern treasure ❤️

[@cynhanrahan4012]

Even when I try my best to suppress my accent, voice apps never understand me. I can't tell you how many of those business phone answer machines I've ended up hollering at. That poor woman who recorded all those terrible things must feel bad for alienating so many people from businesses.

[@sparkleshyguy85]

Siri is bad. Those ones that businesses use should be banned under the Geneva convention.

[@NaturalCurlz1583]

If you close your eyes, the guy with the bowtie sounds like a young Beverly Leslie from Will & Grace 😂😂😂

[@michelletatum2896]

I have met people from up north and the Midwest all I could do is smile and nod .then ask a friend to translate for me because I didn't have a clue what they said 😳😏😁😂😂😂😂😂 I am from Louisiana

[@bubbiesdad]

Isn't it warsh rag?

[@stlchance]

I live in St. Louis, Missouri, which has been called the northern most Southern city, and the western most Eastern city. Several years ago, I watched as a friend of mine who's a native St. Louisan "translate" between someone from northern Georgia and someone from Vermont.

[@AflacMan13]

"I think it's ready for its next life as a shooting clay." AMEN!!! The ONLY good thing to do with an iPhone.

[@cynthiagriffin152]

What frustrates me the most is, it aint like there’s not a lot of us. More people live in the south than any other region of the US. Over 100 million people. But it can understand a Australian person or something and there are only like 25 million of them.

[@vickimoore1208]

Nope it doesn't understand what I say and some of the things that it prints out is quite embarrassing

[@natdatil6830]

Yeah I'll ask aunt Loretta if she left reports Ken's movie in a sausage and the church vestibule again.

[@jadeblues357]

I never have Siri turned on she’s so difficult we’re trying to catch a greased pig in a mudslide on the other hand Google talk to text works a little better as you can see😆🤠Great video y’all!

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

Insert eye-roll and laugh.

[@cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647]

you forgot to mention auto-correct what a good one that should make wink-wink

[@baconbap]

I was born and raised outside of Los Angeles but my parents had come from Oklahoma. They always said Vy-eena Sausages. 🙂