蘋果語音助手Siri學說上海話

Siri can speak twenty-one languages， who will start to learn the Shanghainese.

Siri會21種語言， 現在將學說上海話。

Siri is the oldest of the voice service， and researchers including Oren Etzioni， chief executive officer of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle， said Apple has lost its lead when it comes to understanding speech and answering questions.

But there is at least one thing Siri can do that the other assistants cannot： speak 21 languages localized for 36 countries， a very important capability in a smartphone market where most sales are outside the United States.

Microsoft Cortana， by contrast， has 8 languages tailored for 13 countries. Googles Assistant， which began in its Pixel phone but has moved to other Android devices， speaks 4 languages. Amazons Alexa features only English and German. Siri will even soon start to learn Shanghainese， a special dialect of Wu Chinese spoken only around Shanghai.

Siri是語音服務的老前輩。許多研究人員，包括位于西雅圖的艾倫人工智能研究所的首席執行官奧倫·埃齊奧尼在內，都認為在語音識別和回答問題方面，蘋果的領先優勢已消耗殆盡。

不過，至少有一件事是Siri可以但其競爭對手做不到的，即會說36個國家的21種本地語言。這個功能在智能手機市場至關重要，因為大部分智能手機都是銷往美國以外的地區的。

微軟小娜（智能助理）為13個國家定制了8種語言。谷歌語音助手會說4種語言，該服務一開始只在谷歌自家的Pixel手機里有，后來又應用到其他安卓設備。亞馬孫的Alexa只會說英語和德語。而Siri甚至馬上要開始學說上海話了，這是一種只在上海及其周邊地區使用的吳語方言。endprint