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pronunciation of word Emoji

By Kareem Dale, 11 April, 2018

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Since updating to IOS 11.3 using an iphone 8, the word emoji is no longer pronounced correctly and is pronounced extremely strangely. This is a small but annoying problem so wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing the issue. I went into the pronunciation settings and changed the pronunciation and applied it to all apps and when I play the sample, it pronounces it correctly. However, it is still not working when I type the word into a message, when I hear the word in App notifications and when I tap the emoji button to select an emoji in a message. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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For me, using UK english

By chris R

4 years 2 months ago

For me, using UK english Daniel, emoji is now pronounced correctly in Ios 11.3. IE "eem-oagi" as opposed to "emma-g". Perhaps this is a British thing but I consider the new pronunciation to be the correct one.
Chris

That was/is funny

By Dave Matters

4 years 2 months ago

Coming from an iPhone 8+ having the same issue, your post was annoyingly funny. I am running Samantha, enhanced, and having the problem.. My old 6s+ is fine. Fred on my 8 is fine. No, I am not willing to listen to Fred. So, I turned off the VO suffix announcement, and suffer through ...It is just annoying the way it breaks up the speech.
Dave ...

Same Here!

By That Blind Canuck

4 years 2 months ago

I didn't think it true, but I'll be dangued. It seems to be saying "een-moya-tini-onu-jee" or something fairly similar. I repeated it with Samantha reading at 20% rate, kind of brutal at that speed. I too use Samantha, but the compact version. It's funny as hell to hear her repeat the word, but hopefully it will be corrected in a future update.

Me too.

By cool cat

4 years 2 months ago

English Canada here. It's saying what #3 has described.

responses and real problem is with pronunciation function

By Kareem Dale

4 years 2 months ago

Club AppleVis Member

Thanks for all the responses. Appreciate them. I guess the real issue is why the pronunciation setting function isn't working to have the word pronounced like I want. I'll check with Apple accessibility and then I suppose just report the issue.

No issue here.

By Sean Terry

4 years 2 months ago

I’m using the iPhone ate with Alex as my voice. I’m having no issue with the pronunciation of emoji.

Same problem here

By DPinWI

4 years 2 months ago

I am using an iPhone 7, and the U.S. Siri female voice. I too have the crazy mispronunciation.

I am also having the same issue

By DrummerGuy

4 years 2 months ago

I'm also having the same issue.
I am using an iPhone X with the new Siri voice American accent. I am sure it will be corrected in the next update. At least, I hope so. LOL.
:-)

I am also having the same issue.

By Fatima.Hamoud10

4 years 2 months ago

I encourage everyone to send a report to Accessibility@apple.com. Hopefully the issue will be fixed.

Seems to vary

By TJT 2001

4 years 2 months ago

I heard about this for the first time yesterday <a href="http://anyaudio.net/listen?audio=DNJZeOEVZhQ">in this audio clip</a>. It seems that only US English Vocalizer voices are mispronouncing the word. So if you still want VoiceOver to speak a US accent, you can use Alex, Fred or Victoria with no problems.

Sent an email to

By Fatima.Hamoud10

4 years 2 months ago

I sent an email to Accessibility@apple.com and got a reply:
Hello,
Thank you for your email. We appreciate the feedback and wanted to let you know that Apple is currently investigating this issue. We cannot comment on when it may be resolved.

Yes

By chris R

4 years 2 months ago

Having switched to the Samantha voice to test this I can confirm that this is a rather big pronunciation bug.
Listening carefully, she is saying "eemoiapeaneonnoji", that is "eemoia-pea-neon-oji"! Wow!
Uk english is definitely fine.

Phew!! Glad to know that I'm not crazy! lol

By Dawn 👩🏻‍🦯

4 years 2 months ago

I thought it was just me!! I even reset my ipad (soft reset), and it didn't fix it. It is a little off-putting, but I'm learning to live with it. Glad to know that I'm not crazy!! lol

Ol’ Aussie Sam isn’t herself these days :)

By Luke

4 years 2 months ago

Lol, I signed onto the forums just now to post about the same exact problem! Let’s all make sure we email Apple accessibility. I’m sure this will be an easy one for them to correct

It Seems Fixed!

By That Blind Canuck

4 years 1 month ago

Just thought I would check with others. Now I don't know what the heck happened, perhaps it was 11.3.1 or maybe it just fixed itself, but I find that the word "emoji" is being read by voiceOver correctly now.

Just wondering if others have noticed the change?

Confirming it is reading correctly

By Kareem Dale

4 years 1 month ago

Club AppleVis Member

Yes, it is reading correctly now and I believe it was 11.3.1.

Me three

By Holger Fiallo

4 years 1 month ago

Using iPhone 7, current iOS and Tom voice. Noticed this for several months when I was sending a text to someone and wanted to add an image.

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