Teaching iOS how to correctly spell my girlfriend's name

[steiney]

My girlfriend is Chinese, and therefore her name is Chinese. The voice dictation feature murders her name, no matter how I try pronouncing it to get it spelling correct in English. It just takes a guess using two English words. I refuse to use/enable Siri, so I cannot teach Siri how to say her name, which I believe would fix the issue. Is there any other way to get the voice dictation feature to spell her name correctly and/or recognize that I'm saying it? I've got her name spelled correct as her first name within her contact entry in my contacts list.

So, far I've tried editing her contact entry using the "phonetic first name" and "pronunciation first name" fields and filling in the two English words that get entered when I speak her name to voice dictation. No luck.

Is anyone aware of workable method or does anyone have any ideas?

 

[gigapocket1]

My girlfriend is Chinese, and therefore her name is Chinese. The voice dictation feature murders her name, no matter how I try pronouncing it to get it spelling correct in English. It just takes a guess using two English words. I refuse to use/enable Siri, so I cannot teach Siri how to say her name, which I believe would fix the issue. Is there any other way to get the voice dictation feature to spell her name correctly and/or recognize that I'm saying it? I've got her name spelled correct as her first name within her contact entry in my contacts list.

So, far I've tried editing her contact entry using the "phonetic first name" and "pronunciation first name" fields and filling in the two English words that get entered when I speak her name to voice dictation. No luck.

Is anyone aware of workable method or does anyone have any ideas?

Try putting the phonetic name as her name. And see if it helps since you aren’t using Siri..

And if that doesn’t work.. you can always give her a nickname “girlfriend or wifey” and see if that works “call my girlfriend”...

 

[simonsi]

You can change the keyboard but the voice recognition tries to match everything you are speaking in the language of the chosen keyboard, not individual words as far as I am aware. You won't get around that unless you could add your girlfriends English-spelt name with Chinese sounds to the lexicon the system is using. As you can't do that as far as I am aware I think you are stuck...