whenever I see people post positive stuff about voice assistants I get really confused before I realize they probably use English

@noiob Or Japanese, as far as I remember - I saw several videos where Japanese voice recognition seemed to be working quite well. I guess phoneme based languages with relatively little how-do-you-pronounce-this snafu are better suited for voice recognition.

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@Denian I bet Japanese voice assistants also have a hard time recognizing names or English song titles

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