language support

Two 'language support' stories June 2014 - February 2015

MLB At Bat app redesigned, updated with new features for Spring Training

The MLB.com At Bat app for iPhone and iPad gets a big update today in time for Spring Training bringing Spanish language support, new features, and all the details on what content will be available. Most of the app has also been redesigned including all new UI’s for team pages, scoreboards, and the newsreader.

Also new in the app for version 8.0.0 and 2015:

• New UI for all 30 team pages & the league-wide scoreboard (iPhone only)
• Player search expanded to include all active and historical MLB player cards (iPhone only)
• Re-designed UI for the newsreader (iPhone & iPad)
• Team-by-team statistical data filters (iPhone only)
• Native resolution to optimize At Bat for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus
• Easy access to every game with new team schedule navigation (iPhone only)
• Application available in Spanish language, requires device language set to Spanish (iPhone & iPad)

As for Spring Training content, here’s what you’ll get with the usual $2.99/month or $19.99/year subscription:

Watch live streaming of more than 200 available Spring Training games with an MLB.TV Premium subscription (iPhone, iPad, select Android phones and tablets, Kindle Fire, Fire Phone)

Listen live to available Spring Training radio broadcasts (all)

Multi-platform live audio access for At Bat Premium subscribers (portable to Mac or PC with a valid MLB.com account)

Universal support for At Bat Premium subscribers, with accessibility on iPhone, iPad and other supported smartphones and tablets

Track batter-by-batter action for every Spring Training game (all)

Comb through sortable batting, pitching and fielding statistics (all)

Stay on top of breaking news, schedules, interactive rosters and player stats for every team (all)

Customize At Bat’s home screen to feature your favorite team (all smartphones)

Access to a video library archive, searchable by player, team or keyword (all smartphones)

Classic games video archive, featuring dozens of baseball’s most legendary games (all)

Add Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, & Thai to the list of Siri languages Apple is working on

Back in 2012 we noted that Apple was hiring engineers

to help localize Siri into a number of languages the feature does not yet support. Those included Arabic, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and Danish, and recently Apple has added job listings for three more languages: Russian, Brazilian Portuguese and Thai. Apple also posted more recent job listings for the languages it first started hiring for back in 2012.

While Apple didn’t announce any new languages for Siri coming in iOS 8 when it previewed the new operating system earlier this month, it’s always a possibility languages could be added in time for its release this fall.

Apple is yet to add support for the languages mentioned above that it started hiring for a couple years back. Currently, Apple lists the following languages and localizations as supported by Siri:
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