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by givinguflac 3542 days ago
Honest question, do other assistants offer that? Just curious.
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Yes, I'm a native Spanish speaker and Google Now works great with bilingual queries for me, that has been improving in recent years.

I always select English as my default language in my phones, some years ago if I wanted to call someone with a Spanish name saying something like "Call Ramon Hernandez" or asking for directions "Take me to Periférico de la Juventud" I used to had to fake an American accent. Today I don't have to do that anymore, I can speak natural Spanish and then it can understand my Mexican accent when I speak English. So it's not just improving in bilingual queries, they have focused in accents and mispronunciations.

Google's voice recognition works well when it's English plus one other language. If neither is English (eg. Japanese + Cantonese) it doesn't work at all. Neither does the triple combination of English + Japanese + Cantonese work, even if explicitly specified in settings.
Works good with Google for me, also German and English