Latest iOS 17 Beta Adds Support for Bilingual Siri Queries Mixing English With Hindi and Other Indic Languages
Apple yesterday released its first set of public betas for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma, and these versions add new features for Indian users across platforms, including support for bilingual queries to Siri.
According to TechCrunch, users will be able to ask queries to Siri by mixing English with select Indic languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Punjabi, Kannada, and Marathi.
India-based users often speak a mix of languages in daily conversations, so the ability to mix English with Hindi and other Indic languages when querying Siri will be broadly welcomed.
TechCrunch also highlights some other improvements for Indian users, including:
- Transliteration support on iOS for Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam. With this expansion, Apple now supports 10 indic languages.
- Users can sign into Apple ID using their phone number instead of an email ID on iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma.
- A new built-in Punjabi dictionary to get definition of words and phrases across platforms.
- Users will be able to see up to 2,000 calls in the call history section including Facetime and WhatsApp calls.
- Filtering messages by known and unknown senders on iPad.
Public beta testers who have signed up for Apple's beta testing program can download the iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma updates now. Developers have had three betas so far, and the first public betas offer the same content as the third developer betas.
Apple is expected to release final stable versions of iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma later in the fall.
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Eg. Siri can’t read in different languages. Apple navigation read german road names like a moron. The keyboard auto-correction and suggestions works only with two languages, and is not very reliable, too.
Apple is 10 years behind Google at this.