Siri Admits To Speaking Japanese

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Asian languages are a lot more difficult for automated voice recognition than western languages. This is mostly due to inflections changing the meaning of the word and not just the emphasis. IBM attempted a Japanese voice recognition system in the 80's with disastrous and very humorous results. Good luck!

This isn't the 80s anymore, modern ASRs like Nuance Recognizer (which Siri uses) is light years ahead of what you experienced in the 80s. 95%+ accuracy rates!

 

[niewiesznic]

I wish SIRI would speak polish.

 

[Mac'em X]

"Asian languages"...

Asian languages are a lot more difficult for automated voice recognition than western languages. This is mostly due to inflections changing the meaning of the word and not just the emphasis.

Are you referring to tonal languages such as Chinese? Perhaps tones create special difficulty for voice recognition; I don't know. But that shouldn't materially affect voice recognition for Japanese. ("Asian languages" covers a huge range of varied ground.)

Re the anecdote about IBM in the 80s: I would think that "80s", not any specific language, is the key problem there…

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I wish SIRI would speak polish.

SIRI will have to learn to untie her tongue afterward.

Seriously, I wonder whether it's coming soon. I don't know the Polish market's importance to Apple, but it seems to me that the language has a higher profile on the Internet (such as on Wikipedia) than many people would guess. I hope Apple's giving the Polish market proper consideration.

 

[CFreymarc]

Seriously, I wonder whether it's coming soon. I don't know the Polish market's importance to Apple, but it seems to me that the language has a higher profile on the Internet (such as on Wikipedia) than many people would guess. I hope Apple's giving the Polish market proper consideration.

There are a lot of "orphan" languages that Apple will not deal with. SIRI has a phenom API for different languages. Not totally plug and play but it is there.

 

[kiljoy616]

Asian languages are a lot more difficult for automated voice recognition than western languages. This is mostly due to inflections changing the meaning of the word and not just the emphasis. IBM attempted a Japanese voice recognition system in the 80's with disastrous and very humorous results. Good luck!

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[kiljoy616]

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So that what happen to her after Skynet takes over. Does she still give directions? Or tell me I am her only one...?