Ford Fiesta Owner's Manual page 236

Issue
The SYNC voice Foreign names are
control system spoken using the
is having trouble currently selected
recognising language for SYNC.
foreign names
stored on my
mobile phone.
The SYNC voice Foreign names are
control system spoken using the
is having trouble currently selected
recognizing language for SYNC.
foreign tracks,
artists, albums,
genres and
playlist names
from my media
player or USB
flash drive.
Voice prompts SYNC uses text-to-
are electronic- speech voice prompt
ally generated technology.
and the pronun-
ciation of some
words may not
be accurate for
my language.
SYNC
Voice Command Issues
Possible Cause
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Possible Solution
You can also use the mobile phone and
media suggestion lists to get a list of
possible suggestions when the system
cannot fully understand you. See Using
Voice Recognition (page 209).
SYNC applies the phonetic pronunciation
rules of the selected language to the
contact names stored on your mobile
phone.
Helpful Hint: You can select your contact
manually. Press PHONE select the option
for phonebook and then contact name.
Press the soft-key option to hear it. SYNC
will read the contact name to you, giving
you some idea of the pronunciation it is
expecting.
SYNC applies the phonetic pronunciation
rules of the selected language to the names
stored on your media player or USB flash
drive. It is able to make some exceptions
for very popular artist names (for example,
U2) such that you can always use the
English pronunciation for these artists.
SYNC uses a synthetically-generated voice
rather than pre-recorded human voice.