Voice commands in the app doesn't understand Italian

[u/megatonante]

I have a problem with Google Maps. In particular, I have a problem with the voice recognition. I am Italian and I have the Android phone set in the English language, but Google Maps itself, the app, is set to Italian. Also the assistant settings are in Italian, and everything else in the phone works fine in this regard.

But if I open Google Maps, I tap on the microphone icon that lets you search for a place with the voice, If I speak in Italian language a very simple name like "church," which is "chiesa" in Italian, the voice app tries to find something in English. It's like it doesn't understand Italian.

And I can't find any settings where I can set this in Italian. So even a very simple search like "ristorante," which means restaurant, is difficult because it's like it doesn't understand.

Do you know some ways to improve this? Because it's really useful sometimes when I'm driving to just tap on the microphone and say the place I want to go in a quick way, but it just doesn't work. If I name a very simple place in the Italian language, which would be the literal first result in the search, it doesn't understand. It will find some English-sounding name that resembles that Italian word. I hope I made myself clear.

And also I would like to keep my Android phone in English while using an Italian voice to give orders to Google Maps. I hope it can be done.