Apple is not only the leader in the global smartphone market, but it also reigns supreme among personal assistants. Siri supports a total of 24 languages and can communicate in 36 countries, which is compared to Google Assistant with support for 4 languages and Amazon Alexa with support for 2 languages is respectable. With the update iOS Another language, or rather dialect, is coming on 10.3, namely Shanghainese. The Cupertino company in an interview with Reuters even explained how Siri learns new languages.
Leading a team working on a personal assistant Siri has been led by Alex Acero since 2013. Under his leadership, the team is improving and developing the functions of the personal assistant, whose backend (the part that takes care of voice recognition and speech-to-text conversion) was originally provided by Nuance Communications. Apple However, several years ago, Nu decided thatance will be replaced with its own solution, which is faster and more accurate.
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The learning process begins with people with different dialects and accents reading out paragraphs and lists of words. The recordings are then manually transcribed to ensure that the spoken phrases are clearly identified with the exact text. The sounds in the voices are also captured, which the personal assistant learns to predict the word combinations. Then, a dictation mode is launched, in which Siri able to understand spoken words and transcribe them into text. At this point, ambient sounds, such as noise, coughing, or pauses, are also captured, further improving recognition. Again, words pronounced indistinctly or unintelligibly are manually transcribed, thus reducing the speech recognition error rate by half. This process is repeated several times.
The language will then be released with a software update, similar to Shanghainese. This dialect will be part of iOS 10.3 and macOS 10.12.4.
Siri It has preset answers to the most common questions, such as when you ask it to tell a joke. But if you want to find a restaurant nearby, then the answers to these types of questions are processed dynamically.
Source: 9TO5Mac
