Windows 10: Cannot check "Recognize non-native accents for this language" or "Choose the language you...

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Cortana

Hi,

There are several reasons that may affect the ability of Cortana
to recognize and provide you an accurate search result, one of which is the accent. To isolate your concern, we suggest that you enable the
Recognize non-native accent for this language option to improve Cortana's voice recognition. To do this, follow these steps:

• Press Windows
  
  +
  I key.
• Select Time & Language.
• Select Speech.
• Under Speech language, click the box for Recognize non-native accent for this language
  option to enable it.

Once you're done, try the search again and check if Cortana's voice recognition has improved.

Let us know should you need further assistance.

 

Speech Recognition Error: The recogniser language must match the language of the user interface.

This is what fixed it for me, though there are two parts to it and I'm not sure which was the active ingredient:

1. I installed the language packs for English (US) and English (UK) under
   Start Menu > [Windows] Settings > Time & Language > Language > Add a preferred language. That is, the two keyboard languages which were showing up under the Language Bar despite not being listed as installed.
   If this problem affects you, it may or may not be a different set of languages causing the problem.
2. Once they finished installing, I uninstalled them by clicking on them in the same settings window and clicking Remove.
3. Under Start Menu > [Windows] Settings > Time & Language > Speech I enabled the "Recognise non-native accents for this language" checkbox.
4. I tried loading the Windows Speech Recognition app again and it worked this time. It continued to work setting "Recognise non-native accents for this language" back to Disabled.

 

How do I RESET my microphone to work with Cortana?


Thanks for the appreciated response. The solution to my problem turned out to be switching on (checking) "Recognize non-native accents for this language". Under Settings, find the Speech Language settings. If you choose English (United States) as your speaking language -- but don't have an American accent -- then you should check "Recognize non-native accents for this language". Doing this solved my problem. I also did the "Set up your mic for speech recognition" part of the Speech Language settings correctly this time. I read out the prescribed sentence. Since doing all this, Cortana has declared herself willing to talk to me.