“The Chinese tech site DoNews claims to have heard from an Apple engineer who’s working on the Chinese-language version of Siri, the clever voice assistant on the iPhone 4S,” Steven Millward reports for Tech in Asia. “From this source it claims that Siri will launch in Chinese next month, and is already undergoing internal testing this month.”

“The rumor also contends that the Chinese version will only support the standard Mandarin (aka: putonghua) Chinese, which would leave out Cantonese-speaking people, as well as some Taiwan folk who effectively speak in a different dialect,” Millward reports. “Plus, it alleges that Japanese and Russian will arrive next month as well.”

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Dan K." for the heads up.]