A series of text strings discovered within iOS 8.1.2, and included on software versions dating back to at least iOS 8.1, suggest that Siri could soon receive expanded language support on iPhone and iPad. The localized strings provide translated references to how Siri would display things like settings toggles, restaurants and reservations, and sports information in Czech, Slovak, and Polish.
Apple has been hiring engineers over the past few years in an effort to expand the localization of Siri on iPhone and iPad, seeking to add support for Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Thai, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish. Apple also added 24 new languages to Dictation in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite for speech-to-text, including Czech, Slovak and Polish.
Apple has several updates planned for iOS in 2015, so it is possible that Siri could gain support for these additional languages at some point this year. Earlier today, Apple seeded iOS 8.2 beta 4 to developers for testing with Bluetooth support for the Apple Watch and evidence that a standalone Apple Watch app is on the horizon.
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But when does MY language get supported?!
Haven’t you tried yet? Siri understands English just fine.
I hope its legit cos i’ve been waiting for this day since Apple unveiled iPhone 4s
endlesly!
Excellent! I am a fan and use Siri in English but sending texts in Slovak will be v cool;)
Awesome :) I love to use Siri in Bristish English but writing messages to my friends was a little problematic since I’m from Slovakia and needed to write in Slovak language to them. Now I’ll be able to. Yaaay :)
Well, okay. I can’t really understand that Apple logic. Shouldn’t they include the biggest languages first? It’s strange because there are somewhere between 5.5 and 7 million Slovaks out there, while there are at least 10 million Bulgarians. I’ve been to Slovakia and, hell, I didn’t see as much iPhones as we have here, in Bulgaria. I understand all the economic logic behind the decision, as well as the language/grammar one (the correlation with Czech), but still! At the end of the day, I don’t really care that much about Siri but it would’ve been cool if we had that here too. That said, I hope that Apple will bring to the table Bulgarian somewhere around… iOS 9 or maybe 10. Which will be still cool. :)
Slovak language is very similar to Czech language so we can call it like Slovak-Czech language and it was easier to make these 2 for them :) When you count these two countries together, it’s more than Bulgaria and the point is, we’re in main part of Europe. Bulgaria, Croatia and those countries are a bit off so it make take some time but I think those languages will be included as well :)
* so it may take… guys, this really needs an edit function :D
Yeah, exactly what I said. That I understand the language logic – because the two languages are quite similar (even both Czech people and Slovaks are denying it! :D). P.S. It doesn’t matter where the country is located. For the U.S. China is completely off, but they still have it right? :) Geography sometimes doesn’t matter in economy and vice versa. Whatever, I’ll wait another year or two. Just as I said so in my previous commentary. :)
Poland is 40 m people and the language is quite similar to Czech and Slovak. It makes total sense to support new languages in groups,
25m of them are in the UK anyway.
@Martin: Haha. I have heard something about this. You guys don’t like Polish people in UK that much, right? :D I know the reasons. Don’t worry guys, unfortunately we have something that is exactly the same in Slovakia, except they are not Polish and they are even worse so I feel with you.
I’m not saying all Polish people are bad in general, just some of them like to take advantage of the system in UK and it would piss me off as well if I lived there.
Polish dictation in iOS 8 works very well actually. Probably because it doesn’t have to deal with so many accents like the English one does.
Still waiting for the support for Slovenian language …but its getting closer yay :P
Hebrew?
עברית?
There’s support for Indonesian language in System/Library/CoreServices/Siri.app