Apple's Siri will soon understand English with Indian accent – India Today
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Buzz has it that Apple’s Siri will soon be able to understand English with Indian accent. The Cupertino giant has released a new beta of iOS 8.3 that introduces several new languages to the much popular digital voice assistant found on Apple’s iOS devices. These include: Russian, Danish, Dutch, Thai, Turkish, Swedish, and Portuguese. Much to the joy of iOS users in India, the iOS 8.3 beta 2 adds English with Indian accent support for Siri.
First reported by 9to5Mac, news that Apple’s Siri will soon understand English with Indian accent is indeed a welcome one at that, since well until now users in the world’s largest democracy were forced to fake an American accent to get Siri to understand their voice commands.
Reports that Apple was looking to expand Siri’s language support in order to make its presence felt on a larger scale have been doing rounds for quite some time now. The reports were firmly cemented by way of multiple Apple job listings over the last few years.
Notably, iOS 8.3 beta and beta 2 are available only for registered developers. A public beta of iOS 8.3 is expected to be out in mid-March, 2015. iOS 8.3 is expected to be rolled out later this year.
