Cortana in Canada still not working on Build 14376 !!!

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Still the same in build 14379. Cortana wants to change to Canada french.

The real question is how many Builds will it take to get the Development Team to repair the problem??? It took 4 Builds to get an acknowledgement of an issue with the Speech Packs.

And I suspect that there is a significantly HIGH number of Canadian Insiders that have simply given up on using Cortana in English (Canada) and using the English (United States) and selecting the Region as United States as it makes it easier to make things work ! I know I did that on my laptop for several months AFTER the release of Cortana for Canada last September. So the amount of Feedback is likely very low and they likely won't pay attention.

Grrr....

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About 4 builds back, Cortana came in corrupted. On top of this, the only speech pack available was US English so needless to say Cortana and Search were impaired. Finally in build 14377. I got access to Canada English speech packs again and thought I could correct the fact that Cortana was using Canada French for some reason. Even though I set region, language and speech all to Canada English, Cortana insists that it can respond only to French because that is its default language. When I try and reset the language setting in Cortana, the drop down screen does not work and only greys out. Sometime " Canada French is your default language" appears in the instructions above the box and nothing seems to change that. Yesterday I did a reset using build 14379 and it did not repair the issue with Cortana. Is there any way to fix this? Does anybody know if a clean install will repair this- I really don't want to go this route if I don't have to. Surely there must be some kind of work around to reset Cortana's language default if it has been corrupted. HELP!

I did a clean install of 14379 yesterday and there is no difference. The problem still exists.

Thank you....you saved me a lot of work. It would be nice to find a solution..nothing from Microsoft so far. Even called Support but they won't help with preview builds. Nice to know I am not alone with this problem though.

            Even though I set region, language and speech all to Canada English, Cortana insists that it can respond only to French because that is its default language.

I suppose that could have been the case but I got past it (somehow).  Then my problem was that Search Settings would not work--presumably they are intending to rebuild the index using the change of Language sometime but forgot?--anyway continual "try later".  I had to switch back to United States English only because of that.  Otherwise Cortana only spoke French when I forced her to.

So, did you get a prompt to install En-GB too?  I still haven't tried to find a Speech package for that.

 

Good luck

Robert
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Robert,

I had exactly the same problem. The build downloaded UK English around build 14343 and I don't know why. I have been having the same problem with settings search and knew it had something to do with Cortana and language. My Cortana is a real mess...wouldn't let me switch to US English either.

Sadly the problem with Cortana in Canada is STILL not fixed in 14383 !!!

We can now set the Speech to English (Canada) but she fails to speak !! Not a word!!! Not even a groan or gasp !!! Instead she goes looking to Bing for the answer. This is NOT right !

It is surprising that Microsoft Development Teams fail to check their work properly. I mean set aside a couple machines and designate them as Canada and try the updates!! Doesn't take super smart person to figure that out. And yes.... I am frustrated !!

(And yes.... once again.... I have entered it in the Feedback Hub.)