Using Voice Control for music in multiple languages?

Question

Hi. I'm looking to get an iPhone 3GS and excited about Voice Control. However, I am worried because some of my music library is actually in foreign languages, with the titles and artist names written in their native languages. If I have Voice Control in English, will I still be able to request artists and songs in their native languages, or is this a current limitation to the feature?

Answer 1

What I can say after I tried: it works bad in most cases
I have my library in Russian and in English. This also applies to my Phonebook.
Option 1. If voice control is set to English (US):
- "Dial Олег" ([o:'leg]) triggers dialing anybody except Oleg , but adjusting to somthing like ['o:laeg] works, but is says "Calling <silence> mobile"
- "Play artist Nightwish" works perfectly
- "Play artist Ария" (['ari:ja:]) actually plays Арда ['arda:], but adjusting pronunciation to something like ['aeri:ja:] plays what was needed...
It never reads Russian words though, so it says like "Playing songs by artist <silence>"
In short, you can use it with English Voice Control, but it is almost useless for phone calls as you don't know who you call until he(she) replies or until you check the screen. At least, you will have to learn US prononuciation of all Russian words, which is often really different from the original
For music it is less awful as even if it plays something wrong, you have less troubles...
Option 2. Voice Control in Russian.
- dialing and playing Russian spelled phones and music is fine in most cases
- it does not want to recognise any word that is written in English. So you cannot dial anybody with English spelled name or any English-spelled music (like Nightwish), but it pronunces English words(!) (for example, when you ask, what song it is).
So, this is good if you translate all your phone book to Russian, but it is hard to translate all songs
In any language it makes pronunciation mistakes (example, Rammstein it pronunces as [ramsti:n].