I just realized why I can never understand American Siri trying to pronounce Swedish
She pronounces the letter å as "a-ring"
As in the word "går" gets pronounced as "ga-ringr"
Why
And before anyone pipes up, no, Google Assistant isn't better when it comes to Swedish voice recognition
@ChlorideCull the ai is parsing the ASCII directly, so, if the voice model doesn't include any way to parse the special character with the letter it goes with, any character with modifiers gets pronounced as a character with its modifier said after it, since that is how the ASCII is set up literally.
@Liizerd I mean, the only place where Å is an "a-ring" is the HTML escape defined in Unicode, and I have no clue how that ends up in there
If it's based on the Unicode normalization to turn it into basic Latin alphabet and modifier it would be "A ring above"
The sensible thing is to normalize to the basic alphabet and strip modifiers so it's pronounced as "A" instead
@Liizerd I threw together a shortcut to get Siri to say a bunch of it, and all non-ASCII characters have an English "fallback" if it doesn't know how to pronounce a word specifically, where Æ is A, and Ø is O - but for some reason Å Ä and Ö falls back to a handwritten description of them instead of a fallback of phonetic similarity like Æ and Ø
I use American Siri because that gives me better results in terms of voice recognition than Swedish Siri