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Here are all 24 new dictation languages arriving in iOS 8 & OS X Yosemite

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During its unveiling of iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Yosemite yesterday, Apple mentioned that it’s adding 24 new dictation languages, but it didn’t specify what those languages would be. Dictation, a feature available on both iOS and OS X, uses speech-to-text technology powered by Nuance to let users input text using only their voice rather than a keyboard or touchscreen.

Apple has gone from just 8 languages (with a few variations for some) to over 30 in Yosemite. In case you’re curious if your language will make the cut by the time the new operating systems are released this fall, below we’ve included a full list of new supported languages and variations by country:

Arabic
– Saudi Arabia
Catalan
– Spain
Croatian
– Croatia
Czech
– Czech Republic
Danish
– Denmark
Dutch
– Netherlands
Finnish
– Finland
Greek
– Greece
Hebrew
– Israel
Hungarian
– Hungary
Indonesian
– Indonesia
Malay
– Malaysia
Norwegian Bokmal
– Norway
Polish
– Poland
Portuguese
– Brazil
– Portugal
Romanian
– Romania
Russian
– Russia
Slovak
– Slovakia
Swedish
– Sweden
Thai
– Thailand
Turkish
– Turkey
Ukrainian
– Ukraine
Vietnamese
– Vietnam

Apple actually has 23 languages listed, but it appears it’s counting variations of Portuguese for Brazil and Portugal as two new languages. Apple also announced yesterday that it’s adding Indian, Tagalog, Irish Gaelic, and Slovenian keyboards as well as new definition dictionaries for Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Thai, and Turkish Hindi localization.

(Thanks, Roman!)

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Comments

  1. Ilan Volgershteyn - 10 years ago

    When you say dictation for iOS8, Do you mean that Siri will be able to use these languages too or just the little microphone on the keyboard?

  2. Oh boy, awesome iOS and OSX are going to have a language as Danish for SIRI/dictation – very nice :)

    • Lars Pallesen - 10 years ago

      Unfortunately this doesn’t mean that Siri now understands and speaks Danish :-( It’s only dictation.

  3. Does this mean that Siri will get this languages too?

  4. Indian isn’t a language and Turkish Hindi localization seems odd at best. There isn’t a huge apple-only demographic of Turkish people in India or Hindi speaking people in Turkey. Any link for the full list, Jordan?

  5. Lezz (@Lezz) - 10 years ago

    Any word on Siri support for the above languages?

  6. Hector Ferniza Duran - 10 years ago

    Where is Spanish? That’s weird.

  7. Seems that they should change that animated microphone icon as well, as it now no longer suits the overall design of the OS…

  8. Yes.. Portuguese from Portugal and Brazilian Portuguese, are much more different then US and UK english.
    I know I’m Portuguese and work with Brazilians :)

  9. Rachmadi Norcahyo - 10 years ago

    finaly, indonesia language ^_^

    • I know, right? :) But I got too excited thinking I can finally now command Siri in Indonesian (dictation only, but still better than nothing)

      • thomedw - 10 years ago

        I wonder what it will be. Hai Damayanti? :) (damayanti is the indonesian voice of osx)

    • Rachmad Putranto - 10 years ago

      Yeeaayy! Though it does not support Siri (yet), but the result is pretty mind blowing. I tried dictating a quite long sentence and surprisingly it understood most of the words! Will definitely use the feature most of the time :)

  10. Cristiano Camacho - 10 years ago

    Apple might as well keep the two Portuguese variations because the differences in grammar structure, vocabulary and pronunciation are very distinct between these two very different ways of speaking Portuguese!

    • Cristiano Camacho - 10 years ago

      I know this because I am Portuguese. I do not like it when my iPhone forces me to write as for instance; “ECONôMICO” (PT-Br) instead of “ECONóMICO” (PT-Pt). This might look a minor issue but an accent completely changes the pronunciation in Portuguese.

  11. Nuno Sousa - 10 years ago

    Portuguese !! Yeiii !! And not that repulsive language they speak in Brasil !

    • Jorge Otávio - 10 years ago

      Repulsive is your misrespect for another country’s language.

      • Gabi Mar - 10 years ago

        I agree with you Jorge:I would not speak like Nuno about your language, even being portuguese and of course prefering Europeen Portuguese. But that is not a reason for disrespect your way of speaking. Sorry for him, who shames the other portuguese people.

    • feijó delgado (@scheeko) - 10 years ago

      This is completely idiotic, especially because it’s the same language, albeit a variant.

    • rogerio (@framexxiii) - 10 years ago

      I only wish some other country had been here before lame Portugal. Having to speak Portuguese – a language nobody else speaks thanks to Brazil, btw – is the least of the disadvantages.

  12. Luís Bedin (@lhbedin) - 10 years ago

    FINALMENTE!!! PORTUGUES!!! \o/

  13. Gabi Mar - 10 years ago

    ESPERANTO is a language too, not of one country, but of some millions of speakears from everywhere. And we can learn it ten times more quickly than english (as a foreign language). It’s not only easy and regular but very rich and complete for convey all concepts. The only problem is political interests, that prevents its disclosure.

    • irvdel - 10 years ago

      Apple should consider adding more accented letters to their keyboards, in accordance with CEN WORKSHOP AGREEMENT CWA 13873:2000 (Multilingual European Subsets in ISO/IEC 10646-1), where the minimal list (which includes Esperanto) is àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøßùúûüýþÿāăąćĉċčďđēėęěĝğġģĥħĩīįıijĵķĸĺļľŀłńņňʼnŋōőœŕŗřśŝşšșţťŧțũūŭůűųŵŷźżž.

  14. Laughing_Boy48 - 10 years ago

    日本語はどこ? ないの?

  15. David Williams - 10 years ago

    Where is Farsi?

  16. Ilko Sarafski - 10 years ago

    I guess in iOS9 they’ll include all of those languages in Siri too. And they’ll put 10-15 more, just like those, in Dictation mode only, and then on iOS10… :) But that’s great, really great! Great development!

  17. Aleksandar Kojić - 10 years ago

    Bravo for Croatian in the dictation!

  18. poldev - 10 years ago

    Yes! Finally Catalan is here! Now if they could just change “Spain” for “Catalonia”… ;)

  19. I know on the world stage New Zealand is a small fish, but our accent is so different to American, British and Australian english we need our own dialect on iPhone and mac… I have to use british Siri but it is not perfect.

  20. Mustafa Babayiğit - 10 years ago

    Turkish Hindi localization, Don’t true. Turkish Türkiye localization. :)

  21. How about a Tajik Language Voice Support and Tajik Keyboard on iOS and MacOSX? I can`t understand Apple, for more than 8 years it is upgrading its software and adding more languages they can be minority, but no activities around the Tajik Language. Its easy, we-tajiks use cyrillic alphabetic characters with additional letters! APPLE, please think about this offer!!!

  22. Harrison Tu - 10 years ago

    I’d like to know when apple will give us an Afrikaans localization, keyboard, and siri/dictation. So far, we have none of those things. there are a lot of afrikaans speakers (23 million worldwide)… would be useful.

  23. manman123567890 - 10 years ago

    so if my language is o this list, i can’t ask siri (on my native language ofcourse) ” wake me up at nine”, i can only dictate messages? can someone please explain this a bit better?

  24. Fabrian Ivan Prasetya - 10 years ago

    Akhirnya bisa ‘dictation’ di iOS 8 dan OSX Yosemite

  25. Muhamad Derani - 10 years ago

    I don’t see arabic option anymore, am i the only one?

  26. cafesitter (@cafesitter) - 10 years ago

    Can someone with ios8 beta please post if you can initiate siri in say English “send a text message to ….” and then dicatate the actual message in one of the new languages?mthat would be super useful for me;)

  27. Qlaudio Pacheco - 10 years ago

    Thank God Portuguese Portugal <3

  28. how would Siri be able to speak arabic with all the different dialects?!

  29. I want Icelandic language for my I phone 5c

    • marsontherocks - 9 years ago

      And Faroese for my iPhone 6 Plus!

  30. Fina Guio - 9 years ago

    ever since i updated mine my dictation in english gets turned into gibberish spanish. i´ve tried everything and have been in communication with apple twice. anybody else have this problem?

  31. Thomas Kjær - 9 years ago

    How do I change between say danish and english in dictation mode?

  32. Stephen Santhakumar - 9 years ago

    we want Tamil

  33. Aadar Gupta - 7 years ago

    they did not add Hindi and its Sierra

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