“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.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
An iPhone that understand and speak Mandarin? Bloodbath…
Ancient Chinese secret!
Will we be able to switch between languages quickly and easily? That would be great! And if Siri could also do translations — wow!
よかったね！いいね！👍
Apple HDTV controlled by iPhone,iPad and SIRI? AWESOME!
Highly skeptical that this is true.
But could be: http://9to5mac.com/2012/02/06/new-prototype-appletv-visits-isps-up-north-can-be-controlled-only-by-voice-or-hand-gestures
But it’s from the internet!
When I was working in Hong Kong in the late 90s, many locals were learning Putonghua post return of HK to China.
So much so that they were putting some Putonghua programming on the what had been the all English TV channels 🙁
你好 (Ni Hao), Siri.
Я не могу ждать!
I’m sorry Twinkie, I can only find businesses in USA.
I’ m sorry Twinkie, I can only access maps in USA.
And on and on,,,,, (in Mandrin too I expect.)
The ultimate Rosetta Stone.. Siri.
Yeh, but can she speak Redneck?!
Wow! Siri can now say “happy ending”!
Is this a form of protest or will she continue to speak english as well? Cause I have had this with my wife a few times and could not understand her for months…..
すごい！でも、いろいろのサービスがあるの？