What you can switch to English, what stays Chinese for now, and how to rename rooms.
The app is one thing, the robot's voice is another. Some owners see the official app in English because it follows the phone language; others get Chinese everywhere. The spoken prompts are Mandarin and Chinese dialects, no English. Translated voice packs and custom voices are coming soon to VacDeck.
Partly
It depends on the brand and app. One China X50 Ultra owner saw the official app in English because it follows the phone language; a China Ecovacs owner got Chinese everywhere. VacDeck gives the robot a complete English interface either way.
Today the robot's spoken prompts stay Chinese; translated voice packs are coming soon to VacDeck. Sources: Reddit, X50 language thread; Reddit, Singapore thread.
Advice
Not officially. China-market robots offer Mandarin and dialects such as Cantonese, and owners say Dreame does not ship English voice files to them. Third-party voice packs exist for some models only. Today the voice on your robot stays as it is; translated voice packs (English, Vietnamese and other languages) and custom voices, where you pick a voice or record your own, are coming soon to VacDeck.
Sources: Reddit, X50 language thread; Mindsolo.
Advice
Owners give the wake word as 你好追觅 (“Hello Dreame”). They share lists of Chinese commands for start, pause and return to dock, and play them through a translation app's speaker. Voice control reportedly works even on a locked robot.
Source: Reddit, bypass thread.
Advice
In the one case we found, a second-hand China X10 Ultra did this after a reset; other owners thought it had never been online. Getting it online once let it clean from the button.
Source: Reddit, X10 thread.
VacDeck solves
Yes, in VacDeck: tap the room on the map and type a name. The new name stays with your robot, and the official app shows it too. We tested this on a China-only unit used abroad.
VacDeck is a full English app (Vietnamese too): map, room names, modes, settings, schedules, consumables and history.
Rename a room in VacDeck and the new name stays with your robot; the official app shows it too. Today the robot's spoken prompts stay Chinese. Translated voice packs (English, Vietnamese and other languages) and custom voices, where you pick a voice or record your own, are coming soon to VacDeck.
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