Users report Gemini speech recognition fails on Japanese ~90% of the time

shadowartist201 · reddit · 2026-09-07

A user reports Gemini's speech recognition struggles badly outside English: with English and Japanese both configured, Japanese speech fails to register as Japanese about 90% of the time and is misheard the rest. Google Translate's speech recognition handles the same multilingual speech fine, suggesting the issue isn't accent but Gemini itself.

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