We talked a lot about the Siri technology, the smart assistant in the iPhone 4S, and we talked about the ability of this technology and what it can offer ... It is worth noting that Apple sold XNUMX million phones in two days, and we think that the biggest credit for Siri is that, but for us in the Arab world, many have asked when Siri will support the Arabic language and will Siri be useful for us in the Arab world ...

Well let's not be too optimistic

This picture is for a buyer who bought a new iPhone 4S phone and asked where he was and did not know Siri, and also the question of what time the time is and he did not know and a question about the places and he did not know, do you see where the questioner is? It is in Canada, one of the first 7 countries in which the iPhone 4S was officially released

When Apple asked about not supporting Siri for Canada despite the iPhone 4S being officially sold there, I told that the Siri technology is still a beta version so far, as announced on the site, and global maps and other languages ​​will be supported in 2012, God willing. The additional languages ​​that Siri is expected to support in its final version are Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian and Spanish. Arabic is not known whether it will be supported or not.

We return to our question, when will the Arab world at least be able to support the Arab world, even if it is in English ... Mmm, we think that this is not soon due to the simple reason that Siri does not support the Big Seven for Apple today. As we know that Apple classifies the world into 3 divisions, in which it sells the phone in successive stages ...

A first stage and includes 7 countries: America, Canada, Japan, England, France, Australia and Germany.

A second stage consists of 22 additional countries.

And the third stage, the rest of the world, and the Arab world in the third stage.

We believe that Apple's support for Siri technology will be in the same order.

So let us suppose that Siri supports Arab regions, or even we ignored the orders that depend on the location and decided to use Siri technology in other things such as knowing the weather, arranging appointments and other general questions, so will the dialect be a hindrance? Should we speak an American accent?

Our brother Ihab Abdo, a developer in America, answered this question. We asked him to test Siri with an Egyptian accent, then an accent that is close to American ... and he sent us this video ...

Of course, as expected, Siri will be disappointing if your pronunciation is not correct, and in order not to say that the Arabic dialect is the problem. This is a video that shows you that even with some American dialects, Siri could not understand correctly ...

In the end, we cannot tell that Siri technology is bad, on the contrary it is terrible and wonderful and will have a great future, but it needs a lot and a lot of development and we are sure that Apple will remain behind this technology until it becomes perfect, because it is already the largest team of developers in Apple It works in Siri technology.

the source engadget

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